Web Competitors 2010

[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

[waialua359]

Here is our current site.
http://waialuarobotics.com.
It gets updated at least bi-weekly with events, updates and changes such as sponsorship changes/additions. It also features our newly created VEX team that includes 8th graders as well (since we are 7-12 school).
I have written several large complex level grants recently and we hope to get them as they range from 2-5 years which would setup our team for the next several years.

[Zrob]

Hehe, here's Team 1631's site: www.team1631.com

It's still very much in the works, as we just got some things up. We're working on content, but we're not sure of what we want and don't want on it.

[FIRSTtm134]

hey... its not great but its an update from 134's old web site.
http://www.sau53.org/net9/First

[darkangel]

http://www.ghafirstrobotics.org/

Any advice for us?

Our student technical director writes the code for the site. We haven't uploaded our schedule yet, because it isn't completely set.

[TEntwistle]

Team 433's website is:

www.firebirds433.com

This is still a work in progress

[teampronto]

Originally Posted by 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.

this. Notepad all the way. Design in PS.

[sami9145]

i know its not done yet but...
here is the site for FRC 2333 and FTC 3867 & 3869 (yes i am aware of the lots of teams -_- not fun to get deal with that)

sapulparobotics.webs.com

tips please? its not quite done but i want input

[Teja]

Talon 540's website:
http://www.team540.com/

In the past years our websites have been mostly HTML and made using dreamweaver but this year we decided to go with Joomla, a content management system. I am quite happy with it and there are a lot of capabilities for it. Its still a work in progress but let me know what you guys think.

[jaredtking]

The 2424 web site is http://bixbyrobotics.org.

I just realized that I have a few updates to make... I use Zend Studio for web sites, it is a PHP editor with excellent code completion and syntax highlighting features.