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Originally Posted by Malice
Differences:
I say their awesome flash intro made the difference. While your website has a very nice and professional look, 226 has a themed website that reflects their identity as the hammerheads. I think identity is pretty important.
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I do agree with the identity, the theme is pretty creative. However, I don't plan on making a flash intro, it seems unnecessary to me.
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Originally Posted by Malice
Not only that, but they keep their site clean and easy to navigate. They keep what is current and important on their site. Stuff such as what they do, who they are, and their current situation.
Improvements:
Here are just some of my suggestions:
- Get the important stuff on the front page, maybe make the images smaller? All I see on the front page is image after image. The text is not very noticeable.
- Make your navigation less space-y. The little text is being drowned in the sea of whitespace.
Happy coding. (:
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I don't think we could keep our site anymore up-to-date. I'm guessing that what you mean by "current and important" is that they only have information from this year. My team appreciates having team history and past year's information because it's interesting information.
As for the front page, I don't think we could be more concise. The images, weren't my idea. I looked at last year's
Championship Best Website (MVRT) and thought having them would be a good idea. Their images are bigger, so I'm not sure making the images smaller would help.
As for the navigation, from my point of view, the whitespace is good. It clearly defines separation between links to help the user navigate. However, if I get more comments about this, I'll decrease the spacing.
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Originally Posted by BHS_STopping
- The main page seems to be dominated by the large header image. I think that visitors would like to see the side navigation panel without having to scroll down too far. With my computer, over half of my browser is taken up by the header image. It's a good image, just a little big!
- When a new menu opens up on the navigation sidebar, I feel that any other menu which is open should probably close. This might make it easier to search around without having to scroll up to collapse one of the menus.
- You could perhaps split your "About the AdamBots" section into two, as it does seem to be a little overwhelming when you have 10 more sections to look at! (Nitpickiness again!)
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Yes, you're not the first person to mention the header. I guess I'll have to listen sooner.
For the navigation, this is one of the things we debated with the accordion menu, but, ended up choosing the current style because we thought it would make more sense to people less tech-savvy.
Also, our whole menu is quite lengthy, we keep trying to trim it but most of the stuff within About the AdamBots is important and can't really fit anywhere else. Do you have any ideas for separation?
Thank you to the both of you and everyone else for the comments/feedback.