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Re: Team 2648 New Website
I haven't used it before, but Drupal seems like a great, full-featured system, if a bit bloated sometimes. I'm using Silverstripe on a couple sites I'm working on now, but they're all just variations on the same theme.
The one thing with CMS systems is to make sure that you customize the appearance enough that it doesn't look like a cookie cutter, and if you have a log-in system, make sure it's not as prominent on the page so that the website maintains a professional look. Your site seems to be a great start towards that.
As [buddyb] said, your site organization seems to be pretty good. I also like the inclusion of pictures on all of your pages.
A couple of style suggestions (if you want them):
-- The blue buttons don't really work with your red/green logo. Maybe try red (or green) buttons
-- Your header seems to have a little unbalanced white (black) space on the right. On sites with similar features, I've moved the button bar so it's bottom-aligned with the logo, and then right-aligned it. Something to try
-- The change in left sidebar between the home page and other pages is somewhat awkward. Maybe try moving the box with the FIRST logo to the right sidebar of the homepage.
-- The Google Friend Connect applet looks a little tacky, and draws a little too much attention to the log-in, IMO.
-- Is there a reason why you have a log-in at all? You don't appear to have any forums, commenting system, or something else that would require users to need to log in. If all you need it for is logging in to edit the content, consider moving the log-in to a page which isn't linked to from the rest of the site, but you know it (like team2648.com/admin), or put a small link to the admin page at the very bottom or similar if necessary.
--Ryan
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