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Originally Posted by sanddrag
It looks incredibly good. Probably one of the best FRC team website's I've seen.
However, I still do have a few suggestions. Your logo in the top right needs some cleaning up around the edge. There are a few stray white pixel
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Why thank you very much. I will be sure to let the rest of the web team of your opinion! With the MARS logo in the corner, I have been wrestling with that for quite some time. It is a 8bit transparent PNG file that I can't seem to fix. Next step will probably be to convert the file to a GIF and include the background to eliminate stray pixels.
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The menu order does seem a bit odd to me though. I would move the awards menu to above the topsite menu.
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Fixed now, good point.
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And I'd drop the login menu to below the MARS Menu. However, with the current links in the MARS menu, I'm not seeing a big point to it since you have the links at the top. Perhaps duplicate all the upper links in the MARS Menu links?
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Actually, the MARS menu isn't even supposed to be accessible (nothing sensitive can be accessed by non logged in users, but its still taking up space) to non MARS team members; hence MARS menu. We are working on hiding the block from non-regged users.
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I'd give the Gallery its own link up at the top.
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Good point, I'll talk with the other devs about it.
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And the GE logo needs to be anti-aliased. It is kinda jagged right now.
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Another instance of "I would love to, but have no clue how". I tried to fix this in photoshop with no luck, but it was pretty low in my priority list. I'll give it another shot soon.
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Anyway, really nice looking site. Good job! 
PS. How did you make the picture of the computer box with all the MARS stuff on it?
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The box was done with a source image of a 3d box found on google images, then logos were sloppily applied (its just a silly little teaser we put up when the site was down for the upgrade, probably spent 15 mins on it total). The text was transformed with the free transform tool (CTRL+T) then each corner was manipulated (Hold Control and drag a corner while in free transform) until it looked somewhat realistic.
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looking good.
still violating the FIRST logo rules thing.
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Thanks, and we knew it was barley violating before (distracting background? psh.) but now that there is an actual design behind the logo we will reconsider.
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You're violating it twice: first on the carton box by distorting the logo and by changing the background, and second by removing the white background on the page. The FIRST logo is copyrighted, including the white background and space around it. Please use the following guide to ensure compliance:
http://www.usfirst.org/4vol/resourc...Standards_Q.pdf
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The carton was just a quick goofy fun thing that was never intended to represent, well, much of anything. That is a pretty extreme violation and I apologize. As for the site, we will reconsider.
My PDF reader is currently broken, but let me assure you I have read the FIRST logo rules multiple times and often inform members when they are doing an extreme violation (what you see on our site is not what I call an extreme violation). I would get into my personal feelings about the logo standards, but I don't want to get into another argument thread. Lets just say that many consider them to just be more over "guidelines" than rules (which is how I feel that FIRST intended, to prevent serious abuses of their logo).
Regardless, thanks to everyone for visiting our site and providing feedback!