Website critiques & feedback!

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First of all, I'd like to thank you. I really appreciate you taking your time to comb over our website so extensively, and for taking your time to write out thoughtful feedback.

Now, my responses:

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

My immediate first reaction to the homepage is that there is a lot to see. There is a lot going on (maybe too much, I'm undecided) so my eye dances across the screen.

I get that impression as well to be honest.. Especially with having our banner in the header, the "subteams" icons in the body, and the blog banners in the body, it is a lot. I just like to use less text and more graphics, and it's a bit hard to incorporate without making the page look stuffy. I definitely agree though.

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

In the header section you seem to have duplicated your Facebook and Twitter buttons, although this may have been done on purpose.

The buttons in the header are meant to link to our twitter & facebook pages, while the buttons in the absolute top header are meant to actually serve as functions to "like" and "follow" directly from the website as opposed to going to the pages and "liking" or "following" from thereon. Do you think this makes sense?[/quote]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

You provided some lovely pictures in your 'Robots' section, but it would be cool to read some details on them if possible.

Probably such will be added. As aforementioned, I try to skimp out on text but it's certainly necessary to describe the robot. I have a small description for each, but should have more content than that.

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

I would suggest that the album cover for either the FRC or FTC stuff not be the FRC or FTC logo simply because its undescriptive, unless all of the FRC (or FTC) photos will be the same album. Also, you might know this but you currently have no FRC videos linked.

I agree entirely. However, I was having trouble deciding what to use as the album cover for both. While I could just use a photo, I was looking more for some kind of broad over-arching image that would encompass the content of the entire album. And yes, I admit I have quite a few videos to upload

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

Although the blogs are currently blank, I like the idea of them (if I have the idea correctly in mind) and the headers have lovely graphical design.

Thank ya! If you look at the top of the page it says "Login to myERX". The idea for blogs is that students create accounts, log in, and we grant them permissions to post to their teams blog. That way all students can blog about experiences during build season to make for a dynamic blog & log all in one. Additionally the backend myERX has a calendar of team activities. It's like a team member control panel.

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

Currently the resources section is also blank (so no review available). I would caution that by having the many subtabs the viewer will expect a significant amount of information in each one. If you intend to fill them all, then I'll offer an early congratulations because that would make your site an amazing resource for all teams. Depending on the size of your resources, however, you might have to consider combining pages, but this is all a personal decision, and you may do with my thoughts as you wish.

We'd like to fill out all categories, but like you mentioned about going light on resources, I don't know how extensive our resources will be. What would you think of doing instead? Having just "FRC" and "FTC" resources rather than split by section?

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

Overall, looks nice. Although I'm a webmistress myself, normally my quick website reviews come only from a viewer's aesthetics perspective.

Any and all reviews are welcome

Thank you!