Web Competitors 2011

[FIRSTtm134]

Team 134's website is located here www.134team.orgNew version should be up by the end of the week.

[R.C.]

Throw us into the list:

team1323.com

-RC

[mdotjoelint]

Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

[elemental]

Originally Posted by mdotjoelint

Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

Nice website! I thought the background would be to busy at first but it grew on me.
When I went to the homepage I was a bit confused since all that appeared was blog posts and a mini team bio on the sidebar. I don't really know the limitations of Wordpress but would it be possible to include a short welcome message at the top of the page and maybe the FIRST logo? People not familiar with FIRST or your team might be confused and pass the rest of your great content over if they are not grabbed and have a reason to look further.
Also, would it be possible to remove the title="" tags from your navigation? I have a hard time clicking on the right links because the image titles get in the way.
Otherwise very nice site and good content!

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by mdotjoelint

Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

Elemental said most of the things that I could think of. If you can't code an intro paragraph via wordpress. You can just hardcode it (html) into the theme.

[Koko Ed]

http://www.x-cats.org/

[ahollenbach]

www.cybersonics.org
Any input would be awesome!
This year, we have put on a lot more information (although we're still lacking quite a bit, IMO). Also, if anyone has suggestions on how to keep our dynamic menu from hiding behind our flash objects, that would be great (we already tried changing the z-indices)

[ahollenbach]

Originally Posted by mdotjoelint

Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

Maybe it's just for me, but your post-date class is just showing a time. Therefore it always looks like this for me (chrome):

by Joe on 5:40 PM in News, Summary

For your script, if the post is >1 day old, it should default to date only, no time displayed. If the psot is <1 day old, "on" should be "at"

Otherwise, your site looks awesome! Keep up the good work.

[SavtaKenneth]

Ours is at aleh2212.com
still has a lot of work to be done on it, I trust our website team to do a good job though.

[Joseph Bisch]

Check out Team 2064's website at our new URL: www.frc2064.com

Feedback is much appreciated.

[KC1AJT]

our site for this year is still currently in development, but I suspect it to be done by the end of the week

here's the link to the main page: http://www.team61.com

[basicxman]

Gah, 10 days left to finish websites D:

[elemental]

Originally Posted by Joseph Bisch

Check out Team 2064's website at our new URL: www.frc2064.com

Feedback is much appreciated.

Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes.

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.

[elemental]

Originally Posted by basicxman

Gah, 10 days left to finish websites D:

D: And the deadline is noon so I won't be able to stay up until midnight working on last-minuet details.

So much to do so little time.

[Joseph Bisch]

Originally Posted by elemental

Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes.

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.

Thank you for your input. I am going to implement those content related changes. It would be helpful to know your computer's resolution.

Font color is an area that I was having issues with. Also, I was having trouble getting the links to be noticeable without the grey highlight.

Would you please try looking at the site again. I changed the font. Though I know it won't totally fix the black on red issue, it may help. The font looks crisper to me.