Website Judging Misinformation

[zim2411]

Originally Posted by RyanN

Our website had an unexpected shutdown for 2 days (Monday and Tuesday this week) when the school did unannounced upgrades to their servers, killing our website. I just hope that we weren't judged during that time.

The rules say any site that is down during evaluation should be disqualified immediately. It depends on the advisor and evaluator though. Some may stick to this rule, some might be nice enough to check in again later.

[codedr]

Some tips when looking at your website:
- Do all the links work ?
- Are the news items recent ? I look for dates on the news items.
- If you have a pictures of an activity or event, tell something about the picture. The person viewing it may not understand why it's important. Who, what, where and why?
- Reduce the overall size of the pictures you post, but optionally allow to click on the pictures to get them full sized. This will make the pages load faster.
- How does it the site look to Mom, Dad, Aunt, Uncles or Grandma? If I didn't know anything about FIRST, what would I learn by viewing your team site?
- Have someone who doesn't know about your team look at your site and get feedback.