Team Websites?

[Sperkowsky]

We use wix www.regaleaglerobotics.com I made it if you have any questions ask

[Ichlieberoboter]

We use wix.
http://www.hibbingfrc2499.com

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

we used to use wordpress, but we found a sponsor to host our new website

[BronzeStallion]

We use "Joomla!"

http://www.oswegofirst.org/

[jjja380]

2175 uses Concrete5.
http://fightingcalculators.org/

[Short Stuff]

We used weebly. I took one of their themes and added some custom fonts to make the theme look better for our team. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
www.naskcorpions.org

[MichaelMcQuinn]

Weebly seems to be a favorite among teams. I have to go try it out sometime. How much will it cost to remove the (.weebly)?

[Short Stuff]

It ranges from $3-$6 per month

[Ryan_Todd]

Timeline:

1. Once upon a time, we used e107 (with a few plugins) for a dual-purpose internal and external website: about us and history pages, forums, image gallery, document repository.
2. Over time, that started getting punched through with security holes, so we ported the whole thing to vBulletin (with lots of plugins).
3. We eventually decided that we aught to provide a formal front-end site separate from our internal back-end, so one of the students then developed a full-featured CMS completely from scratch.
4. When the student in question graduated, we evaluated the custom CMS for long-term maintainability, and discovered that he had installed a backdoor and obfuscated a lot of the key internals. This led to us swapping out the custom front-end site in favor of Joomla.
5. The Joomla front-end lasted about as long as the custom CMS before we got tired of the mismatch between what we wanted to do with it and the features it offered, so now we're running Wordpress for the front end. This one's still new as of the 2015 season, however, so there's plenty more work to be done.

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Thoughts about our current setup:

• Internal forums are a good format for planning & collaboration during the off hours
• The internal image gallery is internal, so no privacy concerns even though any member can contribute
• Social media presence: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, YouTube
• We use Instagram as an external photo gallery; these pics are curated by mentors, and are automatically echoed across multiple social media platforms
• All videos are curated by mentors and hosted on YouTube
• The internal document repository (custom code) was nice, but we ended up pushing it to Google Docs and making it public instead
• External front-end is all business
• Forums have had problems with misuse / inappropriate conduct in the past, so only mentors have control there, and all registrations require individual approval
• Front-end is entirely student-run; mentors' only role there is to sign off on changes

[MrMARVINMan]

Team 2614 used to use wordpress until switching to squarespace last year. From a web design point of view, our new website is leaps and bounds ahead from what it used to be. Also, we'll be doing another major update to our website that I don't think we could have done without the squarespace development engine.

Visit it here at marsfirst.org

[thegnat05]

My team uses weebly as well!! We really like it. It offers a nice simple platform and its easy to update! http://robohawks2531.weebly.com/

[woudie]

4946.ca - used a combination of muse and html+php. easiest method for web development yet still yields good results

[BenGuy]

We use WIX, it works well for us (although I personally prefer SquareSpace). The main reason we're using it now is because of the browser editor and how well it handles HTML 5. Check it out at www.theflyingtoasters.org

[EmileH]

Our current website team3467.org uses concrete5 but we haven't had all that much success making it customized (using themes and etc.) and looking nice, but it's updated frequently by our team. However if you go to the Robots page of this site, you can interact with 3D models of our 2014 and 2013 robots!

Our "prototype" weebly website team3467.weebly.com looks much nicer but we haven't gotten it linked up with our "professional-looking" domain name.

If you have any questions feel free to PM me as I have worked on both sites.

[EmmaKay1019]

Team 5418 uses wix; our site is currently hhsrobotics5418.wix.com/home. It's a ridiculous address, and I actually really like the site, but getting a custom domain has been an issue, since we want to set up a host and a domain- this gets pretty expensive. Any questions anoyt the site, feel free to ask! I designed it.