Website critiques & feedback!

[synth3tk]

Short answer: iOS doesn't support webm videos.
http://caniuse.com/webm

I haven't worked with Joomla in ages, but you're going to need to either find a module that will support cross-browser HTML5 video, or implement something like this yourself:
http://www.jplayer.org/

Unfortunately, regardless of the solution, you'll need to re-encode your video into three formats: MP4, WEBM, and OGV.

More info and some example code here:
http://designfestival.com/implementi...back-in-html5/

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by ksafin

Hello all.

As my team enters our second year, I decided to completely revamp our website.

You can see it at www.eaglesrobotics.org

I'd love to hear your feedback, critique, comments, etc, so I can improve the site and gauge its effectiveness.

Thanks!

I am getting a security warning that the website is trying to download files onto my computer. Corporate computer, so the protection is a little overzealous, but I wonder what's triggering it.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

I am getting a security warning that the website is trying to download files onto my computer. Corporate computer, so the protection is a little overzealous, but I wonder what's triggering it.

Probably the video file referenced in previous posts.

[dcarr]

My $0.02 - having an intro video/animation is a bit too 1990's - esque and may cause issues for some users. The site is already great without it.

[synth3tk]

If you're really married to the idea, at least include it in a sidebar on the front page, not as a modal box.

[runneals]

First thoughts when I visited your site is that it is SUPER, SUPER busy. I myself like something simple (see our team website). Although I think your nav bar looks ok, you should really have a location where you honor your sponsors, unless you pay for it all out of pocket, which I'm sure you don't. I have said that any sponsor over like $2,500 is featured on every single page in our sidebar.

I also think it would be really cool to hand it off to students (if you have any that are interested) as this type of experience is really great for them to learn valuable web development skills.

Thanks again for sharing!
David

[ksafin]

Originally Posted by runneals

First thoughts when I visited your site is that it is SUPER, SUPER busy. I myself like something simple (see our team website). Although I think your nav bar looks ok, you should really have a location where you honor your sponsors, unless you pay for it all out of pocket, which I'm sure you don't. I have said that any sponsor over like $2,500 is featured on every single page in our sidebar.

I also think it would be really cool to hand it off to students (if you have any that are interested) as this type of experience is really great for them to learn valuable web development skills.

Thanks again for sharing!
David

Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah, still pondering on what to do with the front page.

We have a page for sponsors, its under About Us.

& Well, I am a student

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by ksafin

& Well, I am a student

He's just that good.

[runneals]

Originally Posted by ksafin

Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah, still pondering on what to do with the front page.

We have a page for sponsors, its under About Us.

& Well, I am a student

I would suggest to start removing things & re-arranging things on a piece of paper or even commenting out lines of code. Then keep removing things until it gets less busy. I myself have decided against having a front page (although I might develop one for the off-season months) as I feel the front page should be for the lastest news and usually the only page most vistors visit (so that's how I did mine). Maybe try and push somethings to other pages?

And that's cool I tried Joomla for my high school site I was trying to redevelop, but I decided against that since it was too complicated and the teachers would never learn it (so wordpress is much easier <3

That's cool that you're a student. How much time have you put in so far? I've put in ~3-4 weeks in ours.

Originally Posted by dcarr

He's just that good.

Yup

[ksafin]

Originally Posted by runneals

I would suggest to start removing things & re-arranging things on a piece of paper or even commenting out lines of code. Then keep removing things until it gets less busy. I myself have decided against having a front page (although I might develop one for the off-season months) as I feel the front page should be for the lastest news and usually the only page most vistors visit (so that's how I did mine). Maybe try and push somethings to other pages?

And that's cool I tried Joomla for my high school site I was trying to redevelop, but I decided against that since it was too complicated and the teachers would never learn it (so wordpress is much easier <3

That's cool that you're a student. How much time have you put in so far? I've put in ~3-4 weeks in ours.

I may end up doing so. I'm tempted to use the front page for news, but I also want some kind of graphics to link to important parts of the site - albeit I don't really have that there as of now, anyway.

Yeah, Joomla isn't the simplest, but once you learn it, it's powerful. I started learning Joomla in 7th grade, so I have 4 years of it under my belt, and what once took me a month I can now do in about a day.

As such, I made the entire website in about 3 days during Thanksgiving break.