F.R.E.D. 2883 Website

[basicxman]

A great start to a website... I'm glad you're using div's for website layout and not tables. Is there going to be a logo in the large blank area at the top? I'd also re-position your hit counter to the bottom footer area (and centered). As said by keehun I would rethink your approach to typography. Keep the fonts generally the same, and make a standard design for headers, paragraphs, etc...

Please please please switch from ColdFusion to XHTML format (please??).

I'm not exactly a fan of the content paragraph boxes center. Why are you using textarea boxes? It really clashes with your design and people can accidentally delete the text inside from their view.

I do like the logo on the side right by the top <hr>. The main text header should probably be done with an image editor as you can smooth out the text and have a wider variety of fonts to choose from. You should be keeping the same top area with logo, menu, and header the same on each page. The <title> tag might also want to be changed for each page too. I would rethink your design approach to the Bios page.

Your robot page is more so a "Game" page on this year's challenge rather then your robot. I'd change the titles accordingly. An external gallery is fine but you might want to consider transferring the photos, I forget if Picasa offers an API but you could look into that to display the photo's dynamically with some PHP or Javascript. Or look into embedding the gallery, even if it takes an iFrame.

On the calendar page I would recommend using CSS to style the Google Calendar as it severely clashes with your design.

This is for your about us page, imagine a center vertical line going down your page, in the absolute center. Centered text should be centered relative to this line, not the div. If you look at the about us page, each area of text has a different center point. The centered paragraph "pyramid" style is also a little outdated (but still looks good don't worry).

I believe there is a black background version of the FIRST logo, I'd recommend switching to that version on your Links page. View FIRST logos here, http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...or_rev_rgb.jpg. On your links page the menu is bolded as About Us, I'd fix that to bold Links page.

I'd also recommend switching the background colour from pure black to a darker gray, such as #333333, although that would conflict with the FIRST logo as well on your links page.

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Sorry if I came off a little harsh, great start to a website, content is fine. If you would like some assistance I would be happy to help you.