Team 461 Website feedback wanted~

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Originally Posted by Theodore Huff

I wasn't impressed with the navigation when I first looked at it; I am still not. Your content is stellar and all improvements are welcome improvements from the derailment the program had last year.

As for the custom Content Management System that the mentors worked on, it is like recreating the wheel. There are already systems that are free and not completely horrible to use. It wasn't really worth the time invested from my point of view.

Then again, I always have to be critical of 461. Right?

Constructive criticism is welcome.

Navigation: What can we do to satisfy you? what do you not like about it? I don't think it's right for me to edit the navigation that we worked on for the season and throw it away just because one or two people said "I don't like it" without explanation.

CMS/Content Management System: Mentors did not do everything, students definitely played a role in the creation of the project. "Reinventing the wheel" hmm... how to word this... There is a sense in pride that you didn't rely on others to do the work for you? (ex. Joomla, wordpress, mediaWiki, drupal, etc) How many teams out there can say they hand coded their entire website using php, and also programmed a content management system that works great, entirely dummy proof...? I think it's awesomely cool, handy, and allows non-programmers a chance at editing the website content. (plus it lightens the load for us website programmers) PHPmyAdmin is a great databse tool.

Any other comments?