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Re: Team 2823 Website - Bootstrap & Wordpress

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I really admire your aim for simplicity and your lightbox is pretty awesome, but I definitely agree with the others in how it's missing your identity and it feels empty without images especially at the top of the pages.
So far, we have made some color changes to Bootstrap in general but we're still heading in the right path.

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Here are a few things I would suggest:
- Make the menu fly in right away instead of a delay (or remove it all together)
I do agree, the JS was supposed to be so that the navbar flicks up while scrolling down, but we haven't figured it out.
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- Try enabling featured images for pages and setting them as background header images
Do you mean in a similar way to the home page?
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- Add thumbnails to the members page (people would like to see faces instead of just names
Great idea!
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- Turn .btn-primary, @brand-primary, and links red.*
That's actually what we're working on right now
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*I also suggest that you look into a LESS compiler if you're planning to recolor and expand Bootstrap. It's going the best decision you'll ever make as a developer and you'll definitely save a bunch of time in the long term.
Not very sure how to use LESS, so I will probably do some research on it.
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I've also built a site with Bootstrap 2 and WordPress for my team if you need some inspiration: http://iliterobotics.org/
My goodness! It's really good! Thank you for the reference!

And thank you for your input!
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