Website Award 2012

[North Sailor]

Originally Posted by PiManIII

@North Sailor:
I may experiment with these options in a little while, but I definitely like the idea.

Definitely play around with it. When you see something you like, you will know. A place to start is to think about using an off-black (charcoal type color) instead of black. even though it is lighter, it is actually easier on the eyes than white on black or vica versa.

Since your idea was to create a darker website, which is cool, i would not make the text background blue, but perhaps the background background around the text could be. Play with it, you mainly just want the page to look more split up than one solid color everywhere.

also, i noticed you have like three different logos. perhaps you should consolodate these to one or two on the website, in order to create a more consistant team identity.

[PiManIII]

Originally Posted by North Sailor

also, i noticed you have like three different logos. perhaps you should consolodate these to one or two on the website, in order to create a more consistant team identity.

Thank you! I will try to work on the sidebar colors. Also, we have one main logo, but many other sketches and ideas. I think I should just keep all of our logos on the "Logo" post.

Also, what do you think of having a page where other teams can ask us questions?

http://www.lahsrobotics.org/portal/r...us-a-question/

Several teams have asked questions on posts etc., and I figured it may be easier to make on central area. I just dont think this would be visible.

[waialua359]

Team 359 has 2 new 8th graders working on our site this year.
Granted, they used an old template from last year, but we still have a lot of new info and skills that they needed to learn in the fall to get up to speed.
http://www.waialuarobotics.com.

Team 368, Team Kika Mana has a great site as well. I havent had a chance to look at it in detail, but looks pretty good from what I skimmed through.
They also won best website at CMP in 2007.
http://www.mckinleyrobotics.org.

[KeatonM]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Team 359 has 2 new 8th graders working on our site this year.
Granted, they used an old template from last year, but we still have a lot of new info and skills that they needed to learn in the fall to get up to speed.
http://www.waialuarobotics.com.

Team 368, Team Kika Mana has a great site as well. I havent had a chance to look at it in detail, but looks pretty good from what I skimmed through.
They also won best website at CMP in 2007.
http://www.mckinleyrobotics.org.

I like team 368's website, and it reminds me of the AdamBots (FRC team 245, the 2011 national best website winner) website. (http://www.adambots.com/)

[RyanCesiel]

Originally Posted by KeatonM

I like team 368's website, and it reminds me of the AdamBots (FRC team 245, the 2011 national best website winner) website. (http://www.adambots.com/)

Oh wow! There are some similarities! I'm actually kind of honored to provide inspiration. I always appreciated 368's website and viewed it for inspiration back in 2008 when I was designing/creating my first website for the team.

Just a few brief tips for the Team 114:

• Looks like you have fairly good content, which is great! This is usually the biggest problem, so you're off to a great start.
• Add more color to your layout. This is something I had the most difficulty with, but you can reflect your team colors/identity without being obnoxious or hindering the layout.
• Have more structure and layout to your content. For example, you might make the section titles on the "About Us" page larger, rather than just bolded and underlined. Also, there seems to be some out-of-place, extra spacing in areas of that page as well.
• On the FIRST page, do you have permission to use those videos? I imagine they've got some legal constraints in terms of use--you may be violating copyright.

I hope that helps! If you have any questions, let me know, I'd be happy to help.

[TKM.368]

Originally Posted by KeatonM

I like team 368's website, and it reminds me of the AdamBots (FRC team 245, the 2011 national best website winner) website. (http://www.adambots.com/)

Mahalo for pointing this out. This will be rectified immediately.

Originally Posted by RyanCesiel

Oh wow! There are some similarities! I'm actually kind of honored to provide inspiration. I always appreciated 368's website and viewed it for inspiration back in 2008 when I was designing/creating my first website for the team.

Your use of the word 'some' is quite generous. Please accept our apologies for this incident.

[PiManIII]

Originally Posted by RyanCesiel

Oh wow! There are some similarities! I'm actually kind of honored to provide inspiration. I always appreciated 368's website and viewed it for inspiration back in 2008 when I was designing/creating my first website for the team.

Just a few brief tips for the Team 114:

• Looks like you have fairly good content, which is great! This is usually the biggest problem, so you're off to a great start.
• Add more color to your layout. This is something I had the most difficulty with, but you can reflect your team colors/identity without being obnoxious or hindering the layout.
• Have more structure and layout to your content. For example, you might make the section titles on the "About Us" page larger, rather than just bolded and underlined. Also, there seems to be some out-of-place, extra spacing in areas of that page as well.
• On the FIRST page, do you have permission to use those videos? I imagine they've got some legal constraints in terms of use--you may be violating copyright.

I hope that helps! If you have any questions, let me know, I'd be happy to help.

Thank you very much! I made many of those changes, it does look better! I will try making the header backgrounds an opaque blue color to try to get more team color in there!

Regarding the FIRST videos, they are from Youtube, and all credits are given to them. This should be fine as this is done in many places. Please let me know if you think otherwise.


Thanks!