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Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky
Hey, thanks, really. But just a tip, don't do that to anyone else on this site. I bet you have already got about 125 private messages and negative reputations from people who don't even know me...
I know about the nested boxes. I just never got to fixing them (its a bit harder than you think because I am trying to keep good semantic code, and IE's lack of the child selector in CSS is making it a real pain...)
I only have the page render time displayed because the site isn't in final production mode. I need it for my own reference as I work on it. It will be displayed silently in an HTML comment in the future.
As for the icon, I am kind of aesthetics and creativity blind. I asked some freshman to make an icon and just put up whatever he made. (I'm pretty sure he didn't even make that cause it seems offaly familiar.)
You are right about the reads in the news posts, I'm removing them now.
As for your last, and most important comment, its for internal communication and for communication with the public. I really would appreciate it if you elaborate on the confusing and hostile part.
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I really appreciate that you didn't take my post the wrong way. I know that a lot of people on this site would be greatly offended by that, but I'm glad you weren't. Anyway, on the confusing and hostile bit: what I meant by that is that it doesn't seem to be very welcoming to a new visitor. If you look at it at 800x600 you see a big photo, two lines of very basic description of the team, and a bunch of news posts. Scaling down the image seems to have helped make the page look a lot more balanced, but there's still very little background on the main page. Even a couple more sentences about what FIRST is would probably help. Something roughly like this, borrowing liberally from your existing description and FIRST's site:
Parallel Universe is a joint effort of the Union County Magnet and Vocational-Technical High Schools. We participate as team 1257 in the
FIRST Robotics Competition, a hands-on science and technology program that teams professionals with young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way.
Learn more about our team, or
read background on FIRST Robotics.
It's been my experience that things like that engage visitors more instead of making them wonder where they are and what's going on. Feel free to PM me if you want to talk to me more about this - my inbox isn't completely full yet
