New NU-TRONS (team 125) website - take a look!

[ThomasTuttle]

I just finished redesigning the website for our team, the NU-TRONS. You can see it at www.nutrons.neu.edu. It's generated with Template Toolkit, and should be XHTML and CSS valid. (I haven't specifically checked, but unless I made a typo it should be.) If you run Firefox, you can go to View > Page Style > No Style and see that the site is actually real HTML, and is formatted entirely with CSS. Please feel free to email me with comments at nutrons-website.thinkinginbinary@spamgourmet.org

[Tim Arnold]

Pardon me for saying this, but its GHETTOTASTIC !



Just messing with you. Your design is very clean, and some people really like that (especially dial up users). But the main thing you need is content! I have found that with my team website, as well as many others. They just simply don't have enough content. Instead of making it pretty, focus on the content (which is all you have time for anyway). The judging has already started, and your website is rather bare. Good luck though, and I think it will be turnout great in the end.

P.S. Anyone know if being CSS and HTML valid influences the judges at all? I went for browser compatibility!

EDIT: I just realized where I have seen that styling before - Think Geek has nearly the same colors and bars. In fact, they seem to be the same size and everything! Just without the side navigation columns.

[tiffany34990]

very nice...looks pretty good...

go neutrons and nu (my big bro goes there so gotta love nu )

good luck neutrons!!

[ThomasTuttle]

Originally Posted by robosapien

...the main thing you need is content! I have found that with my team website, as well as many others. They just simply don't have enough content.

I know, I know... it's hard to get good content. I wrote several of the pages thta used to be "under construction," but some are harder. Take the "High Schools" page--I wanted a blurb about each school from someone who goes there, but everyone was busy building the robot and I couldn't get them in time.

Originally Posted by robosapien

P.S. Anyone know if being CSS and HTML valid influences the judges at all? I went for browser compatibility!

If you make a web site using valid XHTML and CSS, it will work in every browser, and look almost the same in most of them. My site should work on any browser ever created, since the titles are marked up with header tags, the nav bars are marked up with list tags, and so on. I then used CSS to make it look nice in modern browsers while not cluttering up the code with font tags.

Originally Posted by robosapien

I just realized where I have seen that styling before - Think Geek has nearly the same colors and bars. In fact, they seem to be the same size and everything! Just without the side navigation columns.

I've been to ThinkGeek, but I picked the colors for the site based on our team colors (red and black). What a coincidence!

Thanks for the reply,

Thomas Tuttle

[webranger7]

Nice website. Little content, but fantastic design. I definitely think you guys could win next year if you had just a little more info. But here's our website. www.railerobotics.com