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Just some other maintenance things that you should consider (this were our focuses when we rebuilt out site last summer)

• Modular - If a website is built out of building blocks (called modules) that make up every page, it will be easier to fix bugs, keep compliance, keep uniformity, prevent errors, make editing easier, make coding simpler, and enhance the browsing experience.
• Integrated - This term has two meanings. First, we plan on integrating the main website with the forums. There will be one set of usernames and passwords, and events on the calendar can link to forum threads. (Like meetings will link to posts containing minutes from said meetings). Second, the team website will be integrated with other websites and technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, RSS, iCal and more to help people stay connected with the team and help spread popularity through social networking.
• Compliant - With help from modularity and the site model below, our website should be compliant with W3C standards. In addition, it must be compatible with all major browsers (even IE) and files like RSS and iCal must be compliant to their respective RFCs. (If you didn't understand the last sentence, try googling it.)
• Handicap Accesible - At this point, you may be confused. It is now a major focus of Web 2.0, the W3C, and FIRST website judges that websites are accessible to the blind, vision-impaired, and deaf. This means using alternative text for images, minimizing the use of text in images, giving the option to increase text size, providing a simpler skin, provide contrast in colors, and putting captions below video (this will take time and effort).
• Transparent - It should be easy for people to navigate and know where they are in a site, and how to get somewhere else. This will be available as a result of modularity, a site map, and predictable urls and navigation.
• Sexy - We're only going to win if we can create the sexiest site anyone's ever seen. Through the model below, we can build a website, then make it sexy by building a new skin.

(^ list is from http://www.uberbots.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=555, that specific info is near the bottom of page 5)

Keep in mind that these may not all apply to you (especially modular, since we made our site in a 'special' way), but all of these are good to keep in mind. Also, make sure you have a good CMS, or at least an easy way of updating information on the site, even for people who don't know HTML well.