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Re: CVHS Robotics 589 (we need suggestions)

On your website, I think the most critical thing to change is making all of the pages keep a consistent layout. There are a few different ways to do this.
- Create each page individually, and manually keep the same layout
- Use php/asp/some other server side scripting
- Use frames
- Use a javascript to print out the sections that all pages have in common
- Use a weird custom pre-server program

If you can, use server-side scripting. This is probably not an option for you since you know only a limited amount of HTML, and such.

You could just make each page and make them look the same, but this get sort of annoying when many updates are needed.

The last three options are things I have used on wilsonvillerobotics.com. In my opinion, frames are probably the easiest way for you to go. You could continue using dream weaver for whatever layout you like to have, but then make the central part an iframe.

Using javascript to print out the layout code is what I do right now. It allows me to do some fancy things client-side without having to load another page. However, all you would need to do is add a link to a javascript file on each of the pages, and in the script, you could do everything you needed to with just one or two lines using document.write();. If you finished making one page look exactly how you want your site to look like, I could probably write this for you.

The last option I would not recommend. I actually implemented this at a couple different points in the design of my team's website, and it actually works right now although we aren't using it. It's not in a general enough form to work for a different team, and I would not recommend spending the to write your own.

Oh yeah, one other thing. The FIRST logo needs to be cleaned up somewhat.

Good luck, and tell me if there's anything I can help with.

Eric