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Very nice frontend, like i've said earlier your site is one of few that I am impressed by. I cringe at the amount of SQL you have used though. Thousands of mysql entries are just completely unnecessary, and not a good idea for such a small site.
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There are just shy of three thousand pictures in our photo gallery at the moment, and each one of them is in a separate entry. Lather, rinse, and repeat as desired for the rest of the site, and with the amount of content we have you can easily see how it starts adding up.
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Originally Posted by Gigaman2003
Hmm going off topic here. Back on track  Awesome site, I really like it. Too bad i've never seen you guys at any regionals. Would love to finally meet the team!
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Thanks for the positive comments! For the past few years, we've only competed at the UTC Regional and the Championships, but this year we were on the waiting list for the Championships, so all we had this year was UTC. A bunch of our members/alumni (including myself) are probably going down to the Championships to volunteer though, and we may even sign up our FVC team to compete there.
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Although I do have to ask something, is the navigation bar HTML or Flash? We are thinknig of making a flash/html site for the looks of flash but are slightly worried because of 1, load times and 2, um....we dont know how..
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All it contains is valid XHTML and CSS, with a tiny bit of Javascript that is only needed to fix a bug from Internet Explorer 6. No Flash was used or harmed in the making of this navigation menu.

I don't like using Flash for navigation, as it greatly complicates things for people who don't have Flash installed. (And one of our "target populations" are students at our high schools, and half the time there isn't Flash installed on their computers, so a Flash navigation bar would be useless.)