Hi there,
I think that the best thing to do would be to ask your guy a couple of simple questions:
1. WHAT is our site supposed to accomplish?
2. WHO is the target audience of our site?
If he doesn't understand that you are trying to represent your school and your robotics program within the context of the FRC, then he can't possibly succeed.
Likewise, if he doesn't recognize that sites that receive recognition (your secondary goal in creating a site for your team!) MUST appeal to both JUDGES and other team members, then he is missing the boat.
Show him some of the sites that have received awards in past years, and explain why they work. You want to give him room to be original, but he HAS to know the ground rules and get a good idea of what the job demands.
Make sure that he has the resources to create a good mix of content and interactive features. And remember, a site team needs more than coders-- you gotta have a photog, a graphic designer, and writers, too.
A final suggestion: DON'T let him hand-code pages. Get him to use a good site-management program like Dreamweaver, or even Front Page.
Kaye
http://www.crackbots.net