Web Competitors 2010

[NickE]

Originally Posted by Pikat

I think it's fine. It's clear and readable.

Agreed. Except for the right vertical menu, such as on this page, it is very readable and visually appealing.

[HashemReza]

We've re-vamped...again...

Thankfully, this year is nowhere close to the hell that last year was.

http://www.team1538.com

[qc1967]

Wow, 1323, that is one awesome site

ndsj.org/robotics

We have yet to update this site with new members and sponsors, as well as fix the many grammatical mistakes from last year that we never bothered to fix after SVR...

[lynca]

The DiscoBots have won the Lone Star Regional Website award two years in a row.

Our team keeps the award winning site in mint condition to help other teams learn about our progress. We don't work on our 2010 website design until FIRST season starts (we like to play by the rules)!

http://2009.discobots.org
http://2008.discobots.org

[hyperdude]

Team 2503 -

http://brainerd-robotics.org

[teampronto]

http://teampronto.com

A few updates since last year. Going to be adding a whole lot more content in the next weeks.

[Foster]

Team 1640 Sab-bot-age, Downingtown Area Robotics

team1640.com

All of the pages from prior year robots are there, and we've put the structure in for the 2010 game.

[Wahnish!]

Our brand new, nearly complete website: http://www.teamkrunch.com

It's been a year in the making. I'm glad we're almost done!!

[rdlevy1215]

Team 1676, http://www.team1676.com/

[JohnFogarty]

http://maikenmagic.com
Team 1102's website they are supposedly completely remaking it, idk i porgram the robot not the website.

[brianc217]

What are most teams using to make their website?
Are you using CMS's like Joomla or just coding yourself with Dreamweaver or what?
Just curious. Thanks.

[Foster]

We use MediaWiki for team1640.com. This allows any of the student and mentors to edit pages and add content. It also allows us to link pages together quickly so you can move from topic to topic. Lastly it gives me a way to roll things back to a prior state, so if "something bad" happens, I can easily fix it.

While we don't have the flash and dazzle (or dancing flying exploding pigs) of other sites, we do have a lot of content. I tell our students it's all about the content, not about the flash. Mediawiki will allow you to change the skins so you can get your team colors, etc.

We have 182 pages of content (text information pages) that have 1284(*) pictures and or documents attached (embedded) into them. I'd say that 99% of our pictures have captions attached to them (who, what, etc) All of our prior year engineering documents are on-line.

This year we will make daily updates to the build season info. We will try to capture what happened on the prior day of build and what is planned for today's build. Each sub-team (electrical, mechanical, drive, etc) will post what their group is doing.

I highly recommend Mediawiki for site management.

(*) 1180 pictures are the last five years of build / compete. We try to put up just the good pictures rather than uploading the 15,000 that get taken every season.

[hyperdude]

I hand-code our website. Not with DreamWeaver - by hand.

I'm also stuck designing the darn thing too, so it's a slow process (given a website print, I can have a functioning site up and running in an hour or two).

Though I wish I had the time and motivation to put the website into a CMS.

[burlymon33]

Our webmaster is working on fixing alot of the broken links.

And we should probably sort through the 1500 some odd pictures we have in our photo gallery.

www.fusd1robotics.org

[MissDaisyGirl]

Miss Daisy revamped her website last year and won at San Diego:

http://www.team341.com

We currently only use a CMS, Wordpress, for the News section as I like to have the team members write recaps of our events and such. As for the rest of the site, I have one main student who types out code by hand in Dreamweaver (woo code completion!). Bless her.

As for other CMS', I don't have any experience with Joomla, Drupal, etc but have a feeling that I will get there in the near future. Either that or I'll get so sick with those that I'll develop a simple one on my own.

I also have had experience with SurrealCMS which is easy as pie to set up. One of my freelance clients uses it and has had no issues.

Oh, and I am also anti-Flash for all of the above mentioned reasons. :-P