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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