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Re: BUZZ Robotics 175: New Website

I help my team's webmaster run our site and have created websites for school clubs (online stores mostly).

I personally like the site but there are a few things I would recommend that you change.

As the others have said your home page is a little busy and you probably could get away with the pictures to a separate section, but the home page is still good even with the pictures.

I second that you should try to change the font. The problem with Times New Roman is that it just does not look good some times and makes the site seem much more busy than it is (the font itself looks more complicated than something like ariel or tahoma). I would recommend going for a simpler font.

I am red-green colorblind and the site color scheme does not cause any problems.

The navigation blends in a little bit. I would recommend trying to do something to make the horizontal navigation stand out. I do not know how you would do it with the color scheme but it did take me a minute to realize that there was a horizontal menu/navigation bar. My honest recomendation would be to use a side bar for navigation rather than a horizontal one, the main reason for this being that side bars allow for access to more of the menu items while viewing different parts of the page (basically the navigation bar on top dissappears when you scroll even a little bit down).

This is just a personal preference but I do not like web pages where the text takes up the entire width of the screen. I would suggest making it take up a smaller percentage of the screen, but this is just my opinion. To me this would probably make the biggest difference toward making your site easies to read.

It looks like the primary purpose of your site is to inform people about your team (almost the opposite of my team's site which is primarily a forum) and personally I think your site serves that purpose quite well.

Overall your site just needs a little reformatting and it will be great.

Also how are you making your site?
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