Website Award 2012

[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!