TR-x 145 website

[DarkFlame145]

Originally Posted by mikecombes

The Tr-x website has been changed a lot during the past couple of days and we want to know how it looks. Feel free to give comments below this because we shall look at it regularly. And also it is not fully going to stay like it is because its still in beta stage. We would like to have your comments.

http://www.trx145.net/index.htm

For our beta template, check it out at http://trx145.net/beta/index.htm

Mike, I love that you and Kyle are working so hard on the site, but you guys are trying to add too much "flair". KISS, Keep I Sweet and Simple. The information is there, but it's hard to find it. Also deleteing the meeting minutes and Mentor notes from last year would be nice and use them again this year. They where VERY helpful since we had only had the whole team present on Saturdays. If you guys just keep it simple, clean, and efficient it will be a very nice site. Also looking at award winning team sites for inspiration would help. I know 48 (Chief Delphi) has won the website awards many times and have links to them up top on CD. Again with the suggestions that the others and I have given you, I know you and Kyle can make a nice and clean website. Good luck to the whole team, say hi for me to everyone. I hope to see you guys in Atlanta, I know you guys can do it.


Oh one more thing MARCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mikecombes]

Originally Posted by DarkFlame145

Mike, I love that you and Kyle are working so hard on the site, but you guys are trying to add too much "flair". KISS, Keep I Sweet and Simple. The information is there, but it's hard to find it. Also deleteing the meeting minutes and Mentor notes from last year would be nice and use them again this year. They where VERY helpful since we had only had the whole team present on Saturdays. If you guys just keep it simple, clean, and efficient it will be a very nice site. Also looking at award winning team sites for inspiration would help. I know 48 (Chief Delphi) has won the website awards many times and have links to them up top on CD. Again with the suggestions that the others and I have given you, I know you and Kyle can make a nice and clean website. Good luck to the whole team, say hi for me to everyone. I hope to see you guys in Atlanta, I know you guys can do it.


Oh one more thing MARCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well once we get it all the way done it will mass updated were too lazy to do a little by little and mess it up again. So JUST WAIT!!!!!

[mikecombes]

Originally Posted by mikecombes

Well once we get it all the way done it will mass updated were too lazy to do a little by little and mess it up again. So JUST WAIT!!!!!

Well now the website is been fixed for now the frames are gone. REMEMBER ITS A BETA TEST!!!! how does it look now????

[rsisk]

I hereby grant you the award for most improved web site ;>

[DarkFlame145]

Originally Posted by mikecombes

Well now the website is been fixed for now the frames are gone. REMEMBER ITS A BETA TEST!!!! how does it look now????

much better, still needs a lot of work, but your getting there. With the team history (About Our Team) some pics of the past robots that have not been disassembled.

[NGRose]

i like the site except for the fact that it wants me to download the pictures. i like how u changed the template. all the pages load fine. the buttons are all working. every once in a while a few of the buttons will disappear. i like the background pictures. so as long as u fix the pictures (either with some sort of slide show or album, or just a simple browser) and the buttons, i think u have made a huge improvement to the website.

[R.C.]

Nice Site, every site is FIRST robotics site is unique in its own way. David put out some really nice suggestions. He could help you out if you need it, make sure to hit up.

Really Cool intro and site.

[Tom Line]

You need to make your title smaller, and perhaps use a graphic for it.

An excellent, free, and very easy web-based generator is cooltext.com

Don't overdo it though. In fact, I see they have one that fits your sight exactly called "Nova" style. Give it a try!

[NGRose]

You still need to fix the pictures. Non team members (and even some team members) dont want to download our pictures and no one is going to pay to get Win Rar just so that they can look at our pictures. Please just put the pictures back to the way they were or in some sort of Virtual Album.

[mikecombes]

Originally Posted by NGRose

You still need to fix the pictures. Non team members (and even some team members) dont want to download our pictures and no one is going to pay to get Win Rar just so that they can look at our pictures. Please just put the pictures back to the way they were or in some sort of Virtual Album.

Its a FREE PROGRAM!!!! and we are not fully sure what we are going to do with the pictures yet. We might set up a photo gallery but most of the time there are way too many photos and we don't want to limit 5 or 6 that's why we set up the .rar files to make less bandwith usage.

[synth3tk]

Host off-site then use a third-party script?

Flickr is a popular one. Upload pics every week, you get multiple sizes, people can order them on mousepads and stuff, and it's free (although I would push for the Pro account). Plus, they have an open-source API, so not only can you find some code to include your gallery on your website, but there are plenty of options out there.

BTW, WinRar is technically free only for 40-days, after which you get a "REGISTRAR NAOW" message each time you start it up, which can get annoying as *heck* after a while. You can still use it, but you just have to live with the screens.

7Zip, on the other hand, does not nag you.

[NGRose]

On suggestion i have for the site. I think that it would make it easier to read if you put the text into a semi transparent table. I like the background and pretty much every thing else, but i have a hard time reading the text some times.

[mikecombes]

Well the website deadline is coming up and it would be nice to hear some last minute comments before time runs out. I took alot of your suggestions and put them into effect and put a few of our own in. It would be very nice to hear once again whats good and whats not

[synth3tk]

Top images are missing.

http://trx145.net/beta/images gives a 404 error.

[mikecombes]

i forgot to say its all live on the Trx145.net website