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Originally Posted by Uberbots
A site does not have to be a completely modern fully functional web 2.0 site to be a good website. Web 2.0 is a standard created for websites that promote user interactibility, which is not what most FIRST websites are. Most FIRST websites are an advertising and information tool, giving team updates & history, as well as a place for possible mentors and sponsors to go if they want information in helping your cause. Adding Web 2.0 elements to a website with this purpose would be difficult and in the end make the website too gaudy and maybe even unusable (not saying it isnt possible)
As for this website, i think it is very well designed and navigatable. You need to work a bit on your content... im noticing that your About page and media galleries are a bit sparse... but its nothing a couple weeks of info gathering couldnt fix.
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first off, that web2.0 site i was linked to made my head hurt.. was it me, or was it just a giant ad site? I'm confused. but whatever... My personal definition of web 2.0 is anything with use interactivity. Correct me if i'm wrong
As for our media page, that was my friend's part. And the server we're on doesn't allow us access to the temp directory, or, rather, we haven't "gained" access yet. So it makes uploading directly to the site a pain in the neck.
We just got it working though the other day, and what you see is more of a test than our actual media. Unfortunately, I've been so busy writing our chairmans presentation that I haven't had the time to upload many photos.
Eventually, users will be able to register (a function currently disabled) and be able to upload photos, which will be submitted for approval to our site admins.
as far as our about page, we quite literally took it from the old site to appease the whole "too much change" fact. Our site got a major face lift, and change is hard to do all at once. But eventually it'll all be rewritten, and more open to our team members content.
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Also, the back end is the part that i think is more impressive. the side bars you see are all completely individual modules, and can be moves up down, left or right. What's displayed inside of them can be taken from a script file in another folder (which is how the login system is running). the links in those boxes can be moved from box to box, up and down. All through the back end eventually. (we're coming up with a way that is very "apple" in it's intuitively obvious to the casual user controls).
I wrote a lot, but then the quick edit didn't post it... So, beware of the quick edit, for it is buggy.
-Chris
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taken from good old wikipedia:
Ribes understands Web 2.0 as:
"...all those Internet utilities and services sustained in a data base which can be modified by users whether in its content (adding, changing or deleting- information or associating metadates with the existing information), or how to display them, or in content and external aspect simultaneously."
okay, I'm confused, please tell me why my vision isn't web 2.0. I can understand that right now, since i'm not allowing the world to register and change things, it isn't But once the necessary measures have been put in place (I.E.:it's pretty and simple so i don't get a flood of "help" emails) i think it'll be "web2.0"
please help me understand a better definition, thanks.