Cyber Blue 234's Website 2007

[Fireworks 234]

cyberblue234.com

Here's our website for 2007. Please post your comments. All are appreciated.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Fireworks 234

cyberblue234.com

Here's our website for 2007. Please post your comments. All are appreciated.

I REALLY like the Team Member Bio pages with everyone doing their various poses.

All the pictures look very professional, in fact, the whole site looks excellent and is extremely well organized.

Great job!

[(Click_Here)]

I love the use of flash on this website, it's about time FIRST teams as a whole start moving towards it!

[DarthXar]

It is a great website. The interface is intuitive, and nicely done, with the buttons on top with drop downs that roll down. Thats pretty cool.
However, the best part is that first has it's own tab, and it tells all about the different parts of first.
Another cool thing was that you gave each sponsor its own tab.

And of course, team bios.

I love your guys' site.

[daneelshof]

Wow! It is very well done... Definitely beats ours by a long shot (www.team1619.org). Since I was one of the only students on our team that wanted to do a website, I chose Drupal as the base so that I could get a website up and running quickly. I also thought that blogging would be really cool to have, but if I started earlier on the site I would want to do it by hand.

Great job, I really enjoy your menubar as well.

[Matt Keller]

Originally Posted by (Click_Here)

I love the use of flash on this website, it's about time FIRST teams as a whole start moving towards it!

Flash has its place in web design. Just about every place in this site is perfectly fine, except the navigation. Flash doesn't handle smaller text too well. The pixelated text of the sub navigation doesn't compliment the typography of the rest of the website. Aside from that, the site is significantly less accessible as a result of the flash menu system. No flash, no menu, no fun. Section 508 (the government web accessibility initiative) guidelines require embedded objects, especially flash objects, to have a text equivalent. As far as I can tell, there is none. (disable plugins in Firefox or Opera)

Yes, most people have flash, and have it enabled, but what about the folks who don't have flash capability that simply don't have flash, or can't because of the device they are using. A textual, low-bandwidth solution always proves to be optimal in an otherwise low-bandwidth website. I used to design my website with flash navigation, but grew out of that stage for several reasons including the ones mentioned above.

Aside from my semantics rant, the site is superb. I absolutely love it. It puts ours to shame. Mad props.

[Ninjitsu Banana]

On behalf of WBI's website team, I'd like to say congratulations on winning the Boilermaker Regional website award. I just visited your website and I'm really impressed with your graphics, especially the banner.

Good luck at the championship!

[Pavan Dave]

This site puts many professional websites to shame. I love how you used flash to its fullest and how every page had a unique touch of your team in it. Only one word sums up your site, "WOW!"

Pavan.

[Gigaman2003]

Amazing job on this.

I personally love flash for it's ability to make a site that much better, but simply for accessibility's sake I would never use it for navigation.