Team 1946 (Mishka Monsters) website !!

[mahmosh]

hey all..
this is our new website for this year (2009). we are working to add some new sections.. we build a forum and we are happy to see more users from other teams joining us ..
http://tamra-afr.tk

Mishka Monsters -Tamra -Israel

waiting for ur comments

[Elvenage]

Ok, don't use .tk for your domain. Get a .com/.org please. It's not that expensive. But if you are going to use one, use co.cc. Just a quick suggestion

[mahmosh]

ok good suggestion .... but it is too late ... we registered for the website award
please comment for the website itself not the domain name becuase i think .tk is not bad its just a domain to be easy to write and to remember !!

thx for ur comment! nead more

[billyea]

Could use better navigation.

This is the kind of comment you don't want to hear, as navigation is usually an essential part of the site design.

There are 3 different navigations, and neither of them seem to take precedence (a.k.a. focus) over one another. This, in effect, makes understanding the page difficult, because it means there's nothing on the page to start or focus at.

You could probably solve this by combining "about our team" and "main index" into the top menu bar as submenus that pop out.

[cdennisxlx2]

Originally Posted by Elvenage

Ok, don't use .tk for your domain. Get a .com/.org please. It's not that expensive. But if you are going to use one, use co.cc. Just a quick suggestion

why? its just a domain extension, you can view it just like the common domain extensions. Honestly i would just keep it, especially since you already have it registered.

Now for the site, it looks pretty good. the only real problems is see with it is the colors are all pretty close to each other so they don't contrast. Its a little hard read because when you first look at it you don't get a sence of content-navigation contrast. I suggest using darker colors for your different layout schemes.

Also there is a lot of div layout inconsistencies, like your intro splash page is aligned to the right and your banner on the main page is set to left. You probably don't notice it because you have a smaller resolution then some of us, you wouldn't notice this error on a 1024x768 resolution but i do on my 1680x1050. There are many of these type of inconsistencies through out the site. I would suggest setting all the css styles to something like...

position:absolute;
margin-left:-450px;
left:50%;
width:900px;

the width would obviously be what ever the width for that div tag is, also the margin-left is just half the width but negative. This will set it to exactly center on the screen.

I also would suggest going more conventional with your navigation, you have 2 main navigation bars and they are a little hard to follow. I would suggest using either or, for this template might be best to just use the left navbar instead

Also it might be better to have your banner that's on the main page be on the front splash page and then become static [ie not flash] on the main page, that way it wont replay on each page.

That's about all i see for the moment.

[mahmosh]

There are 3 different navigations, and neither of them seem to take precedence (a.k.a. focus) over one another.

ok thanks no problems .. i'll try to do this

[mahmosh]

Now for the site, it looks pretty good.

thank you

the only real problems is see with it is the colors are all pretty close to each other so they don't contrast.

i think the colors is ok .. maybe the size ??

Also there is a lot of div layout inconsistencies

i'll solve this problem as soon as i can

Also it might be better to have your banner that's on the main page be on the front splash page and then become static [ie not flash] on the main page, that way it wont replay on each page.

what do u mean ... sorry i didn't understand this

[rsisk]

When I load in IE7, click "Home Page" on the default page, the page loads but I get this error:

Line: 349
Char: 2
Error: Object Expected
Code: 0
URL: http://www.afr.297m.com/index.php




Using IE7

[mahmosh]

When I load in IE7, click "Home Page" on the default page, the page loads but I get this error:

Line: 349
Char: 2
Error: Object Expected
Code: 0
URL: http://www.afr.297m.com/index.php




Using IE7

mmm thank u for ur notice ... i am using internet explorer 7 too ... but i don't see this error !!
is someone else have the same error ??
and need more comments i am working on the site now

[rsisk]

I may see it because I run with Script Debugging turned on (Tools/Internet Options/Advanced tab)

[mahmosh]

I made some changes becuase ur comments ....
What about the site now ?? is it better ??

[mahmosh]

hey ...
we are going to change the domain name to .org
but we have a problem that we submitted to the website award ... so can we change it ?

[Elgin Clock]

In your flash animation for FIRST the word Recognition is spelled wrong.

Keep up the good work though, looks good!

[pheadxdll]

Its an intro page completely neccessary? Its a noisance to click-through.

[Kitmor]

In general I would say it has too much flash animation, but that is just my personal opinion. Other than that though, it looks pretty good.

The only thing that I would worry about is the FIRST logo standards.
I don't know how much emphasis the judges put on correct usage of the FIRST logo, but on the intro page especially it would seem that the standards have been violated. I don't know how much you can do, because it seems that the modified version is pretty integral to your design, but I thought I would let you know.

Also I believe the FIRST trademark is always supposed to be italicized, though I couldn't find anything specifically saying that anymore. So I could be wrong about that.

I'm not trying to criticize your website, I just don't want you to by surprised by the rules.