Team 263's Website

[rachelholladay]

My initial thoughts:

Home / Overall Layout / Navbar: I like the styling, it gets your team personality and branding across quickly. Edge but professional, its a nice balance. The rolling photos on the front are of course, always a nice touch. It would be nice to see somewhere on the page the geographic location of your team, I'm having trouble finding that at first glance. Along a similar thought, its nice to have an intro paragraph or something of that nature to introduce viewers to who you are. Pretty solid footer, I like the Copyright Notice (very professional), Sponsor listing (good to give credit where credit is due, although you only show two?) and W3C certification. Also, your favicon is nice. I like the navbar, its very effective, sleek, and visually pleasing. I will note that based on my screen size with the browser at full screen I have to scroll to see each edge of the page.

About Us: I like the idea behind this and the set-up of this section. I can't comment on the content (since its under construction) but if you execute as planned should be very solid.

FIRST: You have the basic description and the FRC logo. I would consider a link to the FIRST homepage a 'must' and more information about FIRST a 'nice to have' but not a requirement.

Sponsors: Solid page, you give the title, the logo and a link. Perhaps think about including a note along the lines of 'If you would like to become a sponsor then blerg do this something or contact someone at this'. It never hurts to ask at every opportunity.

Awards: Its a fairly impressive list. I like that you explained some of the awards that could be unclear to non-FIRSTers, that is very user friendly.

Gallery: At first I was surprised to be directed to a page that did not have the same format as the others. I do like your method for display photographs though. It works very well and is intuitive.

Resources / Blog / Forums / Log In: These four are all in development (or inaccessible to me) so I can't comment too much, but I like the ideas behind them!

Contact Us: Gives the needed stuff, so good. I'm a little surprised (from a privacy or spamming stand-point) that the emails of students are listed, but that's your team's call.