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Why do people ignore team websites?

DISCLAIMER: I am a web developer. I joined robotics because the programming bit sounded like fun. Since I was 8, I've been playing with HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Python. I like creating websites more than any other robotics-related task. With that said...

Why do so many teams ignore their website? My team has many sub-teams, including Mechanical, Electrical, PR/Media, and a Website team, and the website team does just as much work, and spends just as much time perfecting the website as any other.

I've spoken to some other teams and a lot of them say it's because it doesn't really count for anything in the competition. That it's a sort of useless award. While this may be true, I think that learning to design and code designs for the web is an important skill to learn. It's also a large part of marketing, and if I'm not mistaken, Dean Kamen likes to liken FRC teams to companies.

So I guess my question is twofold: How much time does your team spend on the website? And why or why not?
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