I would definitely have to agree with most of the things everyone has said so far. A team website should be completely student produced... and why shouldn't I think that because I do the majority of the updating of our site and some design as well. A site should be an "Advertisment", if you will, for FIRST and your team, as well as spread and emphasize the message of FIRST, but I believe it should also be visually pleasing. Right now, we have two awesome team members working daily on adding some creative flash aspects to our site and working with it's design. The effort they have put in is amazing and if a site is to win the award for best website, there must be a lot of student effort presented.T hough the new additions won't be up for probably a week or so, you can check out our current site at:
http://www.cybersonics.org
I know that when one of the three of us judges the websites of the teams going to the three regionals our team is attending (Chesapeake, Philadelphia, and J & J), we are going to be looking for a site that is creative, organized, does an amazing job of spreading the message and explaining their team, visually pleasing, and has that extra something that makes us say "wow". I can't wait to begin looking at all the great sites!
Good luck everyone!
Jess Jankowitsch
Cybersonics Technology Team 103