Want to know what people think of our site

[RyanCesiel]

I just have a couple things ..

If you're going to make a website, make sure you code it properly. Tables should never (never NEVER!) be used for the layout of the website. I know judges don't look at this (and they should), but if this is going to be a learning experience, CSS and DIV tags are the to go.

The text should be slightly easier to read. I recommend changing the font to 12pt or adding line spacing in your CSS (or both).

Maybe make your layout more exciting and original to better reflect your team. Right now, your banner seems to be the best part of the layout, outside of that, there's not much else that draws my attention except pictures.

Make your navigation more noticeable. The gray links are just not working for me, sure I saw them but they weren't prominent. The hover effect is a nice idea.

In your media section, the pictures that you currently have are resized with HTML, which is not good. Resizing with HTML causes the thumbnails to load slower, therefore causing the page to take forever to load. Have to sets of pictures, thumbnails and the real pictures.

As far as content goes, take a closer look at the rubric on FIRST's website and make sure you add as much as you can. On our site we have just about everything there is to know about our team. After reading your about us section, I didn't feel like I knew your team. I understand that you're a rookie team so make sure that you build this section as more things happen.


Overall, it's a great start, a lot better than a lot of sites I've seen. Make sure that you keep your site up. Nothing ticks me off more than a team putting up a website for the FIRST season, then just taking it down (that's just downright pointless - a team website shouldn't just be for winning awards).

I hope that helped, if you would like any help with anything, feel free to send me a PM or post back in here! Also, if something doesn't make sense, make sure and tell me/correct me because I wrote this pretty quick.

Ryan
Team 245
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[cdennisxlx2]

Originally Posted by RyanCesiel

Tables should never (never NEVER!) be used for the layout of the website. I know judges don't look at this (and they should), but if this is going to be a learning experience, CSS and DIV tags are the to go.

I completly agree...

Originally Posted by RyanCesiel

I hope that helped, if you would like any help with anything, feel free to send me a PM or post back in here!

and ditto on this, one of the great things about Chief Delphi is the helpful community and resources

[Cow Bell Solo]

Also according to the previous two years that we have been involved in FIRST and of me working on our website (http://www.whitebearlakerobotics.com) any external links should open in a new window not open it in the same window(like your link to FIRST on the top of the page also along with what i'm guessing is your schools website on the contact us page). That is just my 2 cents.