Highland Robotics Website

[Joshua May]

Here is the website for Highland High School Robotics, Team 1110. We will be competing at the Southern California Regional next week. I just want to see what y'all think of our new site, any tips/constructive criticisms are welcome and encouraged. Sorry that it's hosted on angelfire, but its the best we can do for now, hopefully we'll have more money next year for the website to get a good host.

Highland High School Robotics Team 1110

[Joshua May]

I'm reviving this thread to update a link to the website. I've been working on it alot updating much of the stuff. Also, I'm thinking about redesigning the site over the summer, so i'd like your input. It'd be great if you guys could tell me what to keep, what to change, what to get rid of, what to add, etc. for a new design.

I'm already working on the following projects for the site:
*Scouting Database
*Member's Area
*News Comments
*More White Papers/Downloads

Oh and, BTW: check out the news story under the Press Clippings section if you're in for a laugh, the press got a few little facts wrong about the game.

[Astronouth7303]

Needs more color. (and new host)

[Bharat Nain]

Overall its a very good website, keep working on it. Yes, try to add a little more color. Otherwise, it's a neat design. Good Job.

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

Needs more color. (and new host)

Oops, I forgot to post the new link, with all the new stuff I've been working on. The layout is still the same, and color is one of the big things I will change. OMG I feel like an idiot for forgetting the link. Here it is: http://www.hhsrobotics.circuitrunners.com

Originally Posted by LauraN

Sign-up page: excellent idea. How well does it work? Not criticizing, I'm just wondering- who does the information get sent to? Do you ever get people submitting their info?

On the newest version of the site (see link above quote) I have changed it so that the information is sent to a text file on the server. This has just been updated, so I haven't had any submitted info yet, and the website still needs to be more publicized.

Originally Posted by LauraN

I don't know if you're aware of this, but the image on the right hand side is broken. Well, it doesn't show up for me anyway.

That was an error that I was having, its the Website Excellence Banner and I got it right on the new version.

Originally Posted by LauraN

Meal calander? The page looks cool but would you like to elaborate? (We just order pizza on those long build nights)

This was used back during the build season, but its not on the new version because we aren't building anymore. Every night we would have a different parent bring food (pizza, McDonalds, tuna salad , whatever) and each parent would bring food three times during the build.

Originally Posted by LauraN

It seems slightly redundant that on your sidebar, you link to various FIRST resources and the also link to a page of those links. =)

Thanks, I'm going to add more links to that page and not the sidebar to actually make that page useful.

Originally Posted by LauraN

All that I can really think of is that you may want to add something to add interest for possible new members. Maybe a page that adds more details about what FIRST is and what students would be doing to get them interested. Pictures and/or a picture gallery would also be nice.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll work on it.

Originally Posted by rowe

Quick little note, in the menu, the box around the links change color in the over-state--I like this--but the font color changes only when you're over the text. If its not too hard, try to change it so both change at the same time. I know this may seem nit-pickey and it probably is, just a suggestion. Also, as others have been suggesting, try messing with the colors (or lack thereof). It looks as if you might have css in your page so that won't be that difficult.

I'll see about getting that done.


Thank you all for your suggestions.

[Astronouth7303]

ok, now the 'chat' page makes IE close. No error, no message box, just closes.

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

ok, now the 'chat' page makes IE close. No error, no message box, just closes.

I'll have to look into that. IE is "broken" on my computer and I use SBC Yahoo! which doesn't have problems. Anyone else having this problem?

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by HHSJosh

I'll have to look into that. IE is "broken" on my computer and I use SBC Yahoo! which doesn't have problems. Anyone else having this problem?

I use Mozilla Firefox, and the page does not display, just blank...

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by TeknoBramha

I use Mozilla Firefox, and the page does not display, just blank...

This is what I get for using a remote chat room. Does anyone know of any good (and easy to install) scripts for chat rooms. I've got the capabilities for PHP and PERL, but I can't seem to get the PERL scripts to work as of yet, still inexperienced.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

ok, now the 'chat' page makes IE close. No error, no message box, just closes.

Originally Posted by HHSJosh

I'll have to look into that. IE is "broken" on my computer and I use SBC Yahoo! which doesn't have problems. Anyone else having this problem?

I just went to the "chat" page and had no problems, it gave me a link to click on to log in once the page displayed. I'm using IE6 and Windows 2000 Pro with all the current patches.

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

I just went to the "chat" page and had no problems, it gave me a link to click on to log in once the page displayed. I'm using IE6 and Windows 2000 Pro with all the current patches.

Sounds like you were going through the old website, the link in the first post. If you were, please try this link.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by HHSJosh

Sounds like you were going through the old website, the link in the first post. If you were, please try this link.

I just clicked the link you supplied and I was at the login page asking for a nickname and email address and join channel. This page is different than the one I was at before but I still had no issues.

[Joshua May]

Allright, I've modified the link in the first post so that no one gets sent to the old site. Again, thanks for all your input.

And here's a quote from that news story I mentioned: "...was one of dozen robots that mastered the challenge of hanging from a 9-foot-high wire for 15 seconds..." This newspaper is known quite well for messing up facts and quotes, but we got a plug, so I'm not complaining.

EDIT: Oh and these guys are my biggest competition for the Best Website Award at the Southern California Regional. They've won the past two years in a row.

[AJ Quick]

Hmm.. too bad the domain HHSRobotics.com is taken.

Nice Site.

[Bharat Nain]

Now, it works fine with me too. I guess some temporary problem...
It just gives me the link to login..