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Re: Unveiling the All-New FRC 2526 Website!!

Great job for a first website! You should definitely submit this for the award.

A couple suggestions regarding the visual design:

On the "What is FIRST?" page, the FIRST logo looks blurry. Instead of resizing it on the website, start with a larger image of the logo, use an image editor to resize it--to the exact size that you want to use on the web page itself--and upload that one. Browsers don't always do a good job of resizing images, regardless of whether you're trying to make it larger or smaller.

Light text on a dark background is really tricky to work with. Take extra care to make sure everything is readable. Making light-on-dark text readable requires different strategies than when using dark-on-light text. Here are a couple tips:
- If possible, increase leading (line-height, or in other words, line spacing).
- Avoid bold text, especially for blocks of text.

Increasing the line-height will also fix the issue with the "To create a world..." quote. (That'll also allow you to get rid of the line breaks in the quote.)

Let me know if you need help figuring out how to make those changes.
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