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Re: Website critiques & feedback!

If I might offer a few opinions -

My immediate first reaction to the homepage is that there is a lot to see. There is a lot going on (maybe too much, I'm undecided) so my eye dances across the screen. In the header section you seem to have duplicated your Facebook and Twitter buttons, although this may have been done on purpose. I do like how your slideshow is more than just pictures, its a series of infographics. Again, however, its a lot of information thrown at the viewer at once. Your slideshow banner does accomplish giving the basic team information, which would normally be in some kind of introductory paragraph. But a different approach is cool. The navbar seems rather functional and incorporates your team theme in rather well. I will say that the "Resources" subtab seems much more loaded than the others in terms of first glance at content.

Within the pages there seems to be a nice continuity, which is always a comfort to the viewer. Adding in a page that gives specifics on your logo is a particularly professional touch. You provided some lovely pictures in your 'Robots' section, but it would be cool to read some details on them if possible. You give adequate discussion to both FIRST and your sponsors, so kudos on that. You media section is standard and easily viewable and expandable, me gusta as well. I would suggest that the album cover for either the FRC or FTC stuff not be the FRC or FTC logo simply because its undescriptive, unless all of the FRC (or FTC) photos will be the same album. Also, you might know this but you currently have no FRC videos linked.

Your 'Contact Us' page is also effective and reflects (what I would assume to be) the webmaster's decision to streamline all outside communication through the email-in feature. Although the blogs are currently blank, I like the idea of them (if I have the idea correctly in mind) and the headers have lovely graphical design. Currently the resources section is also blank (so no review available). I would caution that by having the many subtabs the viewer will expect a significant amount of information in each one. If you intend to fill them all, then I'll offer an early congratulations because that would make your site an amazing resource for all teams. Depending on the size of your resources, however, you might have to consider combining pages, but this is all a personal decision, and you may do with my thoughts as you wish.

Overall, looks nice. Although I'm a webmistress myself, normally my quick website reviews come only from a viewer's aesthetics perspective.
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