[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by Dustin Shadbolt

I believe hiring a website designer/programmer would be out of the spirit of FIRST and it would take away the fun of giving it to the programming team to do.

When I competed, I used Wordpress and just wrote some plugins and changed things as I went. Always wanted to hand code something from scratch, but decided against it. Why re-invent the wheel?

I would say that the ethics of, "Is hiring professional help to augment your teams ability." would be a great debate (and feel free to use that as a title). But that debate wouldn't add to the purpose of this particular conversation and it would just derail it.
The purpose of this was to get examples of how other teams did thar bidnizz and not to judge or comment on it. I would hate if the result of this question or poll was that any team felt alienated because of how they operated when all I want is examples of other teams website design.
TlR Method is not of concern here I just wanted to reach out for help and just because someone else said it was against the spirit don't let that make you feel like you will be attacked for how you did things.