FIRST Website

[Mark McLeod]

One of the official notices:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=50275

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

Generally, I like it.

I'm having a bit of trouble navigating though ... I'm looking for the Form W9 and where to send it, but I can't seem to find it (and site search returns 0 results). Anyone else have better luck?

The link to the W9 page through TIMS is broken, but it's here:
http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...nt.aspx?id=462

You get there via:
Top-bar: Already Involved -> FRC
Side-bar: TIMS & Registration -> Registration Process

Here's the short answer in case you're feeling rushed:
Please fax W-9 to 603-647-5772 (Attention: FIRST Finance).

[Jessica Boucher]

Ah, the FIRST Community, aka The Land of Little Patience

The official launch time isn't until 1pm. I would tack on a couple hours afterwards for getting everything settled.

[JohnBoucher]

Slow but cool
No DOCTYPE declared, I wonder if that is causing some of the speed problems.

I want the Video. Will there be a copy in the KOP????

[Joel J]

The speed problems seem to stem from both the server-side-scripting(/database?), and the actual rate at which the page is being sent. I'm getting a 2KB/sec download rate, and a 5-7 second delay before the server even starts sending the pages. Should be fine later?

[JohnBoucher]

The links to the team information pages are missing.

I hope this gets fixed.

[Wetzel]

The speed the site is loading made me wonder if somehow I missed a few weeks and it was kickoff Saturday.

I do like the blue shade on the side though. Anyone else missing a backing for the drop down menus? All I get is black text dropping down.

Wetzel

[Wetzel]

Just found the FIRST Alumni Community. I would guess that this will be around longer than the college networks that have come before...

Wetzel

[Michael Hill]

Holy cow...I'm on a backbone connection at Purdue. This thing still hasn't loaded; it's been trying to load for 3 minutes.

[RoboMom]

Here is the RoboMom advice.
Give IT a day or so to work out the major glitches.
Let's assemble a concise list of what isn't working-stuff you can't find, etc. Can we put this in a numbered document? Then the entire list can be forwarded up to the people that need to see it. Or if you don't want to work as a group, can use the "website feedback" form under "quick links."

For example:
1. "If you go to What's Going On In My Area? (the new team map) and look at FRC teams from X area, clicking on their team name now brings you to their personal website ... it doesn't give you the competitions they've attended, awards they've won, etc. I really liked being able to see that! I hope it comes back soon."

[Mark McLeod]

Here are a few useful shortcuts:
All Registered Teams: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist
Any and all Events: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso
All FRC Events: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?event_type=FRC
All FVC Events: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?event_type=FVC
All FLL Events: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?event_type=FLL

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Here is the RoboMom advice.
Give IT a day or so to work out the major glitches.
Let's assemble a concise list of what isn't working-stuff you can't find, etc. Can we put this in a numbered document? Then the entire list can be forwarded up to the people that need to see it. Or if you don't want to work as a group, can use the "website feedback" form under "quick links."

I agree. I'm ignoring the broken links for now.
I'm sure they have enough on their plate getting the new site up as it is.

I'd expand that to include the things we really like about the new site too.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Here is the RoboMom advice.
Give IT a day or so to work out the major glitches.
Let's assemble a concise list of what isn't working-stuff you can't find, etc. Can we put this in a numbered document? Then the entire list can be forwarded up to the people that need to see it. Or if you don't want to work as a group, can use the "website feedback" form under "quick links."

For example:
1. "If you go to What's Going On In My Area? (the new team map) and look at FRC teams from X area, clicking on their team name now brings you to their personal website ... it doesn't give you the competitions they've attended, awards they've won, etc. I really liked being able to see that! I hope it comes back soon."

2. "I'm looking for the Form W9 and where to send it, but I can't seem to find it (and site search returns 0 results). "
3. "I wish the contrast on some of the text was higher and that the site wasn't so completely reliant on Javascript. I don't see a site map at the bottom and I am worried how my Wii will handle browsing it."
4. "the Javascript navbars prevent me from ctrl-clicking links to open them in a new tab. It just uses Javascript to change the current page. I really dislike when sites do that. It makes them a lot harder for me to pull down massive amounts of information from at once, and really is completely not necessary."

[Elgin Clock]

I like the value of the height of the main picture on the main page.



This makes me happy.

[savage301]

I like the new design. It slow, but I'm sure it will get faster. The only thing that I don't like is that they took all the specs down. I'm really happy I printed out the motor specs yesterday, for off season testing. Also you can't go to old game manual pages as easy as before. But again I like it.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

2. "I'm looking for the Form W9 and where to send it, but I can't seem to find it (and site search returns 0 results). "
3. "I wish the contrast on some of the text was higher and that the site wasn't so completely reliant on Javascript. I don't see a site map at the bottom and I am worried how my Wii will handle browsing it."
4. "the Javascript navbars prevent me from ctrl-clicking links to open them in a new tab. It just uses Javascript to change the current page. I really dislike when sites do that. It makes them a lot harder for me to pull down massive amounts of information from at once, and really is completely not necessary."

5) Nit-picky, but the contact pages' title (like top-of-the-browser-window title) is "Contact First", not "Contact FIRST"

[kjhobin]

6) cant find PDF of venue locations to aid hotel search