Who controls your website?

[Ashley Weed]

Through many past years, we had problems because only one or a very small group of students had the information on accessing the server and the password, etc. for working on the page.

We currently have one student working on the page. Hopefully, this year as it is her senior year, she will be able to involve other students.

[Timothy D. Ginn]

The team 1006 (http://www.portperryrobotics.ca/) site is completely designed and built by students. For the past two years (since it was created) it was hosted by me as a student, but now that I've graduated I continue to host it as an alumni. The site runs on a modified version of openFIRST (http://www.openfirst.org/ -- which itself is student built, and is a very student-centred project) and contributes back code and patches to the main repository periodically. The backend system that people don't see is also student-written, including its hooks into the mail system that automatically create e-mail forwarding accounts in the form of firstname.lastname@portperryrobotics.ca and automatically creates division-based mailing lists, the cell-phone text messaging whenever FIRST posts rule updates, etc.

Up until this year, no mentors had passwords for administrative things on the website (excluding the posting of photos to the photo gallery, mentors, and students who took the pictures were largely responsible for uploading their own and given access to do so). Now the few mentors who have access don't often use it, but have the ability to go in and check things out if required to help the students with something (eg tracking down a bug, and teaching them how to fix it, etc.). Some students who don't have direct administrative access over the website have contributed minor patches to the openFIRST project which have been in turn incorporated into the site.

[Merv Burger]

My team's website is maintained by me and my dad, with suggestions by the rest of the team. I also use the open source project Gallery for use of the image gallery that will eventually be linked on there.

I suppose that's what happens when you're the only one on the team that knows HTML and how to set stuff up.

[peaseonearth]

Our time has just gotten a new website that is completely controlled by a group of students. I am one of them please check it out.

aceshigh176.com

[rappo]

Our website is completely student run. I am one of the webmasters.

http://www.team696.com

[M. Hicken]

we have a web site?


in actuality, on of the kids on the team made one last week, he is hosting it on his personal server. Dont know why he has one. Ill have the url soon i hope. Our mentor/ teacher doesnt even know it exists, let alone have acess to it. Shes lucky if you can turn on the PC

To put it simply, I run our entire site. And, since we have a one-person web team, changes are done as soon as I can type them.

[looneylin]

The school's computer teacher has total control over it since she hosts the site. However, only the students make the website, by students I mean me.
lol
Check it out here

[KTorak]

Two students do most of the PHP/HTML/Design elements. A few more write articles. One student runs it off a server in his bedroom which accomedates our needs nicely. Our school techies are really not the smartest. They refuse to put a link to our robotics website on the school website becuase the server is not in a closed enviroment, aka run by the school so they can control everything on it. And we have no intention of putting our site on the schools server.

It'll be cool if I can run it off my sever next year since the student who runs it now will graduate this year. We have quite a larage data transfer rate a month (350 MB or so and its only half way through this month) and the cable company we have (residential account) doesn't seem to mind.

[Cujo]

Originally Posted by xxmaddjxx

Who controls your website?

Do students have complete control or must they check with a mentor before posting news or making updates?

I help design the website along with one of my team leaders and another student. The mentors were there to offer suggestions, teach us certain techniques to edit, and hints on what makes a good website. Our mentors said that if the three students agree on something we can do it, or publish it in that case.