Critique this design, please

[Roland]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

It's nice and clean, but maybe not what you'd expect when looking at a robotics website. I believe the 2004 website rubric actually gave some point for the style "being appropriate for a robotics website" or something along those lines. Perhaps its the serif-ed title or the sort of pastel color scheme. Not edgy enough to be a technology related.

I understand what you mean about the pastels maybe not being quite right. However, the logo will definitely stay: it's done that way to match our school's logo.




And Ryan: check out lipsum.com.

[Adam Y.]

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Hey Im not really sure but I have seen this same thing in a book and on other websites. Now if I only knew what it meant.

[Roland]

^^^ again, look at lipsum.com.

[ahecht]

Very nice. Sizing it down to 640x480 doesn't break the page (although smaller than that does), and I don't see any major problems. I also like the text-based navigation.


Other that it not being "robotic" enough, the only issue I see is that you might want to swap which side the salmon banner is on, as thin columns on the right side are often assumed to be ads and ignored. You also might not want to have your email there in plain text -- a simple javascript email obfuscator such as this one would work, but a CGI mailto script would probably be better (click the Zan Hecht link in my sig for an example).

Oh, and your signature may be legal, but it's still really annoying (and not gracously professional).

[J Flex 188]

Perhaps, but i had a pretty good chuckle at the sig.. at least it pokes fun at something.

I personally like the pastel style, and I dont really see how anyone can define being enough of a "robotics" look. You have a picture of a robot, as well as the FIRST logo. The site doesnt necessarily have to appeal right away to web site judging guidelines, no? Just building a site for your team is a good enough accomplishment to serve to inform and let people know about your team and FIRST is enough for me. If you want to make the site the best it can be and tailor it to the criteria =) by all means.

[Joe Matt]

It's jarring to see the pastel green, but if you want to keep it, then that's cool too. Nothing much else I can judge right now, but otherwise it looks good.

[pakrat]

Other than not being able to read it, it looks really good to me. I think that its just fine for being a robotics web page, you should have whatever style you want.

[PCole]

Looks good to me.. the colors are a little different, but in many ways different can be good

Looks good