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Re: Website Dogfooding Request
Loads a bit slow... Approximately 2 seconds on my computer, about a second based on pingdom from NY. A good chunk of it is facebook...
Kind of big for the first page - 2 MB. Most of it is the header png.
Front page looks okay. The first thing I see is the photo slider. Cool pictures. But I don't really know what they are. Maybe add some captions? Links to the featured thing (about page for team, robot page, etc.)?
Second thing I see is the Facebook feed. As someone who's not on your team and just wants to learn about your team, the feed throws me off, because the first thing on there is "Tomorrow. 8 am - 2 pm American Legion Hall. Be there.". Okay. It's your team thing, and this isn't fully integrated yet.
If I'm coming as someone who wants to learn more about your team, perhaps I want to contact you. I don't immediately see a "Contact Us!" sign, or something along those lines. Then I see a menu with "Media" and "Contact". But wait, don't you already have "Photos" and "Videos"? I'm confused... Maybe combine the Photos and Videos under Media, and have Contact Us immediately visible.
Also odd is the four other teams linked at the bottom of your homepage. Even though I'm familiar with FIRST, I get confused when I see multiple teams on the same page, which implies multiple FRC teams (unless otherwise specified).
For your robot page, it's hard to quickly scroll through the slider of all of your robots. The funny end motion for the slider is also a little distracting, but it's COOL!!! I did notice that you don't have links for the older robots, which may be a project you want to set aside for the future.
For the links at the bottom of each robot page, don't you think they should be the other way around? My first impression was "what? that's backwards", but then I think a bit, and it kind of makes sense. Good idea though, but maybe make them a little friendlier to people with tunnel vision.
You also may want to put the latest robot first in your slider, and not put Murphy twice at the end.
I like the student team page. It gives a great look into your team, and lets other people know who your team actually is. One suggestion would be to remove the html tags from the hover description, if possible.
I'm not entirely sure you want to call all of your mentors welders, unless that's what they do on your team... Also, the first mentor picture might be broken. Also, what would a 5th year team mentor be? Super-senior?
For photos, the change in site background is a little jarring. Same for videos, but less so because it's Youtube.
I like the temporary page in Sponsors. Consider making that your 404 page. Not necessarily professional, but that's cool and in style for an FRC team.
For your media page, I don't know. I'm not going to go into the ethics of whether or not to release promotional graphics, but labeling it "Media" probably isn't exactly what you want to do.
No offense intended, but your contact us form looks like a support request form from a corporate entity. Which, frankly, scares me. It may be advantageous to use only email, and include ways of contacting your lead mentor as well.
If you're looking to enter the website in the FRC website judging, make sure you include a page talking about what FIRST is. Might also want to fix your USFIRST link so it doesn't 404.
It looks like a great website. Keep your content flowing, and I'm sure you'll impress people.
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Nathan Hui
B.S. Electrical Engineering, UCSD '16
FRC 2473 (CHS Robotics), Team Captain '12
FTC 4950, 6038
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