Feedback needed

[MathMaven]

You have a good fundamental layout. At this point, you need to start focusing on the details to elevate your website from "just good" to professional level. Several good suggestions have been made above; following are a few of my own. Please note that some of these are very nit-picky:

• "Feedback" is one word. You spelled it "feed back".
• The suggestion above to use flush left or justify for your content is a good one. Centered text just doesn't look quite right.
• Using white boxes for your content on top of a dark grey background makes your white look very bright and thus is uncomfortable on the eyes. I'd consider using a subtle grey underneath the text (like here on Chief Delphi).
• The above applies also to your header.
• While we're on paragraphs, I think the decision above to add some spacing between paragraphs is a very good idea. Doing so will change your content from one big block to a bunch of smaller, more digestible ones.
• Make sure to italicize every reference to FIRST. The About Us page forgets to, and so does your footer.
• As mentioned above, About Us, FIRST, and Sponsors link to the same page. This will likely confuse your visitors. Your navigation will be more intuitive if each links to a separate page.

I have a few more, but these reach real nit-pick level.

• You use long blocks of text with a sans-serif font (Arial). Apparently, serif fonts (like the ubiquitous Times New Roman) make long blocks of text more readable -- this is why many news sites employ Times New Roman, Georgia, or something along those lines. (This doesn't seem to concern Chief Delphi, or any forum site, really.)
• The line spacing in your paragraphs is a bit larger than I'd like. It think it's approximately 1.5 spaced, whereas on Chief Delphi (and on many other websites) the spacing is closer to (but often slightly larger than) 1.
• You have occasional grammar errors throughout the website. (e.g., "The award-winning Channel Cats is a FIRST Robotics team. Supported only by sponsors and devoted mentors." [The second sentence is a fragment.])
• Your About Us page underlines some text. This is not recommended for the the Web because most websites underline hyperlinks, making non-linking but still underlined content confusing for the reader.

[rachelholladay]

Just a few glancing thoughts -

Home: I like the homepage. Its fairly cleanly set-up and the color scheme with the emblem gives an immediate sense of team identity. The slideshow is a nice touch and it is very easy to to find the search tool, the navbar and your social media links. The small sitemap at the bottom is also neat.

Menu: So by design the website has a small, compact menu bar, which often works very well. For the 'About Us', 'FIRST' and 'Sponsor' the main menu links you back the a page of link which provides the three sets of submenus. I find this a little confusing and (personally) would prefer that either they were separate page (so they dont three link to effectively the same thing) or that drop-down submenus were used so that an extra link page would not be necessary.

Who We Are: Lots of sections. The 'Team' section is solid but the use of bold and underline makes a little hard to read. Some spacing and paragraph use might accomplish the same goal in an easier-to-read format. Showing the picture of the trophy for the awards section is a cool touch. I'll assume / hope the blog will grow, an near empty blog is saddening. I too use Google Calendar with much joy, but I don't seem to see any events on your calendar..? Also (I know I suggest this more than once later on) but I would add a space before and after the embed. Its nice that you list your demonstrations. I must say that is a unique way (with the picture) to show your location, although I might have expected that in the 'Contact Us' section, this works too. A Robots page is always cool, but I would have hoped for a picture of the bots if possible. I really like that you so openly display your scouting data, but that section might benefit from either an introductory page or explanatory paragraph accompanying it.

FIRST: Your 'What is FIRST' and 'FIRST History' pages are solid, although I would suggest adding some <br />s in between the sections and particularly the grids. It might make it look a little less cramped and a little cleaner. I like that you list the competitions with links, but I would consider not using bright yellow for some of the FLL ones as its hard to read. Also, maybe I'm biased as an JrFLL state coordinator, but why not add JrFLL to the list?

Sponsors: I appreciate the variety of links given, depending on what the user wants to help with. You show your sponsors well and I really like the 'Sponsor Benefits' page ( I might have to borrow the idea for my team's site if you don't mind!) A quick note, on the bottom of 'Sponsor Benefits' you note 'National Exposure' at the 'National Championship'. In accordance with Gregor Browning's signature, we are international. I liked the how to donate page and the volunteer page is also a great idea.

Links: A very useful collection. Perhaps a personal opinion (that you are free to discard), but I would add an extra <br /> at the very end after the 'Useful Software' section only so it doesn't as abruptly end the box. Again, a very personal opinion.

Contact Us: Nice form. These always give a very professional feel.

Other: A minor point, but I might suggest customizing the title for each page so that the tabs have a more specific label. For example, right now they all have <title>Channel Cats</title> and you might consider something like <title>Contact Us - Channel Cats</title>. Also its often helpful to fill in the meta tags for keywords and description as they assist with search engines. Right now they are blank (<meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" />)

[ace94x]

Thank you all for your feedback I will be taking everyone's suggestions into account and have already made some changes, I have already changed the menu bar and am still working on it, it was made using CSS3 so the aligning of it is being fixed, its not being centered correctly. I am doing big changes first and small changes last (I know I'm stupid like that lol)

But, most of the suggestions will be implemented into the site there may be like 1 or 2 that wont be but very few will not be Thank you again for the suggestions!

If you have any more just keep posting!