FIRST Brand Refresh

[ChuckDickerson]

Anybody see where the links are to TIMS, STIMS, and VIMS on the new website?

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson

Anybody see where the links are to TIMS, STIMS, and VIMS on the new website?

I found VIMS but still can't find TIMS or STIMS.

[StAxis]

Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson

I found VIMS but still can't find TIMS or STIMS.

Go to Programs -> FIRST Robotics Competition -> FRC -> For Teams and it's there. a bit complicated but managed to find it.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by MattRain

"AND HERE IS THE NEW BABY BLUE BANNER!"

I still don't like the fact that FRC has banners for Chairmans, Winning, Rookie All star, And much more... While FTC only gets an Inspire banner. It would be nice to receive a banner when you WIN at WORLDS....

The FIRST Robotics Competition ("FRC" is no longer going to be used by FIRST ) only gives out banners for Chairman's, Woodie Flowers Finalists, and event winners. There's no official Rookie All Star banner. If you saw a RAS banner, then the team custom ordered it.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

The FIRST Robotics Competition ("FRC" is no longer going to be used by FIRST ) only gives out banners for Chairman's, Woodie Flowers Finalists, and event winners. There's no official Rookie All Star banner. If you saw a RAS banner, then the team custom ordered it.

So no more banners or is it just that the banners won't say frc anymore?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by logank013

So no more banners or is it just that the banners won't say frc anymore?

You would have to ask FIRST, but my assumption would be that the banners will spell out "FIRST Robotics Competition"

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

You would have to ask FIRST, but my assumption would be that the banners will spell out "FIRST Robotics Competition"

Random thought but what if the banners next year were red banners?

[cgmv123]

Originally Posted by logank013

Random thought but what if the banners next year were red banners?

Red is the FLL program color.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by logank013

Random thought but what if the banners next year were red banners?

But then we'd never win a blue banner.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Most importantly Frclinks.com is now slightly broken . Team pages don't link but the events still work, which is how I will be getting around till FIRST realizes how poor there new search list is. Also with this brand new website they still didn't give us an easy url system. Clearly something like firstinspires.org/frc/team/3847 should take me to the information page about our team.

Also I don't like that they added a map on the team information page. Since you can't add more then just your city in TIMS it's just silly and useless information. The map portion it shows for Houston for our team is unbelievably small and to my knowledge may contain zero high schools that actually have an FRC team. To make it worse it's not even a picture of our zip code which is listed right next to the map.

I like the move to FLL Jr. and the mobile website but otherwise I don't think this really improves anything all that much.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Most importantly Frclinks.com is now slightly broken . Team pages don't link but the events still work, which is how I will be getting around till FIRST realizes how poor there new search list is. Also with this brand new website they still didn't give us an easy url system. Clearly something like firstinspires.org/frc/team/3847 should take me to the information page about our team.

Also I don't like that they added a map on the team information page. Since you can't add more then just your city in TIMS it's just silly and useless information. The map portion it shows for Houston for our team is unbelievably small and to my knowledge may contain zero high schools that actually have an FRC team. To make it worse it's not even a picture of our zip code which is listed right next to the map.

I like the move to FLL Jr. and the mobile website but otherwise I don't think this really improves anything all that much.

It is sort of bizarre that an opportunity was missed to potentially create a tree of useful urls for use

http://firstinspires.org/programs/frc/about would take you to a basics page for FRC
http://firstinspires.org/programs/frc/game would take you to a page about the game and manual links
http://firstinspires.org/programs/frc/blog self explanatory
http://firstinspires.org/programs/frc/events would take you to the events page.

Eh, it's alright. I'm curious to see when the switch is going to get pulled to push all of the STIMS/TIMS/VIMs information into the new dashboard. You can log into it (at least with my TIMS account) but you effectively get nothing for it.

[DCA Fan]

Yeah it's great that we have a flashy new site, but if FIRST could make frclinks' features built in, that would be so much more useful.

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by logank013

Random thought but what if the banners next year were red banners?

Then we could make a whole set of banner bumpers.

[logank013]

Any way to use the old website? The biggest thing is I don't know how to get to anything. How do I navigate from the home page to the events page with each event having a list of teams at the event? That is something i really want. Thanks.