Team 461 Website feedback wanted~

[Theodore Huff]

Originally Posted by user0

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?

The navigation, while helpful and noticeable, is semi-limited. When I first checked it out, I navigated to a subpage and had then scrolled over another header link only to find that my sub links were changed as well. It would be nice to be able to move within the same category, if they are always displayed.

I also think your visual style, while everyone loves black, should return to the lighter overall colors you had before. It would look so much better if there was even some sort of gold graphic in the back ground. For a team that stands out at competitions as being bright as the sun, I want to see their website reflect that. Also, don't forget that CAT doesn't want their logo within some unreasonable amount of pixels to other logos. Do what We and Harrison did, just write the name in Impact and change the spacing to about -25. Should look close enough for recognition, but not be the real deal. Our Cat representative said that it was alright.

I think you guys have a great chance for website award based on your content, but I think that a good number of parents judging it may not like the overall appearance and flow.