2992's New Website

[nicolejoie]

Yea I agree, I really like your teams site! It's full of a lot information and has a really good color scheme.

Some pointers I would give is to make things a little more clean and simple. Use more empty space. I would suggest putting you sponsors on the bottom of each page instead of on the sides. Also, as said above, the nav bar needs to be more prominent.

Also, there is a lot of information per page. For example, on the about us page there is info about FIRST, your team history, your website history, and history of your past seasons. If you create a drop down menu with subpages for each of these categories it will look less cluttered and it will be easier to find specific information.

And always when designing a website think of the hierarchy of whats important. When your webpage first opens you want eyes to immediately go to whats most important (slideshow of photos, team logo or name, etc.), then to the second most important thing, and so on. Right now when I open the home page my eyes are bouncing all over the place and I don't know whats most important.

But these are all minor details and for the reasons you have previously said, I think this is a very good website!

[ace94x]

Your site if good but if I can make a few suggestions:

The site is to busy, clean the content up to what is important.
some links do not work
there are so many high res, images and videos that the site loads slow on some of the computers I tested it with.

one last thing, I am a stickler about this... Dont use WIX, WIX is used for people just starting and will upgrade to a custom site, My main suggestion is to recreate the site in either a CMS or custom.

[Cheesycakester]

Originally Posted by ace94x

one last thing, I am a stickler about this... Dont use WIX, WIX is used for people just starting and will upgrade to a custom site, My main suggestion is to recreate the site in either a CMS or custom.

Oh I couldn't agree more. For whatever reason, our school's filters block Wordpress.org and the facilitator recommended Wix as an alternative. Me being a person with no prior web experience, I took the advice and really only began to see all the massive weaknesses of Wix after 90% of the site was finished. (Unfortunately for me) I'm going to have to rebuild our entire website once more this year, but I do have a lot of the content and info finalized, and I'm certainly going to keep these suggestions in mind (one of the reasons there's more content on fewer pages is simply because Wix doesn't have a drop-down menu feature). I really appreciate all the input, our next site might not be as pretty (those page transitions are rather difficult to recreate I imagine) but it will hopefully be far more navigable.

[ace94x]

Originally Posted by Cheesycakester

Oh I couldn't agree more. For whatever reason, our school's filters block Wordpress.org and the facilitator recommended Wix as an alternative. Me being a person with no prior web experience, I took the advice and really only began to see all the massive weaknesses of Wix after 90% of the site was finished. (Unfortunately for me) I'm going to have to rebuild our entire website once more this year, but I do have a lot of the content and info finalized, and I'm certainly going to keep these suggestions in mind (one of the reasons there's more content on fewer pages is simply because Wix doesn't have a drop-down menu feature). I really appreciate all the input, our next site might not be as pretty (those page transitions are rather difficult to recreate I imagine) but it will hopefully be far more navigable.

If I were you I would recreate the website using PHP and HTML, create the head, footer, and sidebar if you have one in HTMl then put it in one php file and just use includes in the page, then your content goes in the page which is the only thing that changes on each page. that is what I did for my teams website, but what I would do is divide the work up unless you work on it during the summer, I started my teams website in the summer and finished it mid January, but I am still adding thinks like right now i am in the process of creating a gallery page for videos and photos.

Doing ti this way is more time consuming but you can customize it more that if you were to use any type of program. if all else fails, use drupal or joomla wordpress is for blogs drupal and joomla is both for actual websites.