Web Competitors 2011

[David El]

Originally Posted by dShad

I notice you have music playing in the background on your website, and I couldn't figure out how to stop it. That's because your playing controls are not showing up properly. I get like a pixel show that I can barely see to click to stop the music. I'm running Google Chrome.

Thanks, that problem should be solved now

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by David El

Thanks, that problem should be solved now

Yep it is! Nice site overall.

[David El]

Originally Posted by dShad

Yep it is! Nice site overall.

Thanks

[sdlynx]

This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by David El

Thanks

No Problem!

Originally Posted by Nahum

www.eastlakerobotics.org
pretty much done, still a little in progress.

Nice website overall. Some simple suggestions:

1) Give some styling to your dropdown menus. Like a hover state that way it's easier (and cooler) to see which one you are hovering over.

2) I suggest making your logo clickable . People's instincts are to click the logo to go home.

But again nice site!

Originally Posted by sdlynx

This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.

Nice slider concept in the center! I was thinking of doing something like that this year. Do you use your own custom cms?

[sdlynx]

Originally Posted by dShad

Nice slider concept in the center! I was thinking of doing something like that this year. Do you use your own custom cms?

Yeah. It's just a little bit of simple MySQL and I used CKEditor. If only I could get someone else to actually write the content now haha.

If someone zooms in on the site though, the layout gets totally ruined. Anybody think of a way around this?

[ajd]

Originally Posted by sdlynx

This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.

When I view this site, the logo banner ("Power Hawks Robotics Team 1111 from ...") displays to the left of the rest of the content, making the page twice as wide as my screen. I'm on Google Chrome, Linux.

Team 3238's website is at http://team3238.com - any feedback is appreciated.

[sdlynx]

Originally Posted by ajd

When I view this site, the logo banner ("Power Hawks Robotics Team 1111 from ...") displays to the left of the rest of the content, making the page twice as wide as my screen. I'm on Google Chrome, Linux.

Team 3238's website is at http://team3238.com - any feedback is appreciated.

You might be on an old build of chrome, it works fine for me on linux and windows through chrome.

Speaking of which, when the award guidelines say the site should work in all browsers, does it imply that the browsers being tested are only the newest versions? Our website works in the newest version of all browsers but fails on some old ones (IE 6/7 or something like that).

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by sdlynx

You might be on an old build of chrome, it works fine for me on linux and windows through chrome.

Speaking of which, when the award guidelines say the site should work in all browsers, does it imply that the browsers being tested are only the newest versions? Our website works in the newest version of all browsers but fails on some old ones (IE 6/7 or something like that).

The main old browser you need to be concerned with is the IE series. Now I will try to make a website work for IE6, but you could also take the route of displaying a notice that states "Hey you are an really really old browser. Click here to upgrade to a new faster secure one". Then list FF,Chrome,IE#. However, I would try to optimize for IE7. You could use this site to get a feel for the number of people using each web browser and what version they usually run. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

However, I don't think you will be counted off horribly for not being able to display properly in IE6 and others.

[MaxMax161]

So what do you guys think? http://www.team1676.com/

[fortinj1354]

I'm new to our team this year, but no one else wanted/could do it, so here it is. (Work in progress) http://waltonrobotics.org

[Bob Steele]

Work in progress but most of it is there..

www.ahsrobotics.us

Home of the Skunkworks Robotics Team

[robodude03]

Also a work in progress:

http://team399.org/

Web site works well on iPhone and iPad too, just need to add more content. Any comments would be appreciated

[sdlynx]

Does anyone know a good way to test whether our site works with an older browser aside from actually getting it (I don't even know if this is possible).

Edit: http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ does this.

[xSAWxBLADEx]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

Work in progress but most of it is there..

www.ahsrobotics.us

Home of the Skunkworks Robotics Team

very nice i mean very nice...a few minor things theres a random white line on the front page to the right above the skunk facts (its very minor), and with your awards that picture really through me off cause it was below the 2006 awards and its 2010 i think its just the wrong placement of that picture maybe even deleted it truely doesnt need to be there but overall its great good job