Team website

[WebTeam]

Originally Posted by Siri

That's seems plenty cheap, but if you wanted to you could consider pursuing sponsorship from a web hosting company. We did that for a few years.

I'll echo the lessen the clutter/increase the continuity suggestions, but your content is quite good.

I am the student webmaster for Team573.com
If you need server space and your own url, I also own a website hosting business and I can donate hosting and domain registration to your team if you would like.

Anyway keep the navigation simple and have content organized well. We received the comments from the judges regarding our website, most were really positive except one that found it difficult to find our resources for other teams to use. I made the mistake of having the resources for other teams in the side bars of pages I thought the Robotics teams would travel to the most like our robot build pages and what events we were in pages.

[Dragon Princess]

Make sure to keep it simple and easily accessed.

Try not to use too many marquees or 'distracting' things. It's easy to load up a website with too many distractions.

A very important thing is to ALWAYS check spelling and grammar before posting up on a website.

And just as advice, make sure you always save changes and back up old files, if not then when you make a mistake you have to grieve over it for a long time, and it gets very upsetting.

Try to upload frequently and don't let the web page expire, my team did a couple years ago, and it took a lot to restart over.

[Zholl]

Originally Posted by Dragon Princess

And just as advice, make sure you always save changes and back up old files, if not then when you make a mistake you have to grieve over it for a long time, and it gets very upsetting.

YES!! we were unfortunate enough to get our site hacked this year (I don't understand why someone would hack a non-profit robotics team either), and half our site would have been hosed if we didn't have various backups. even if it's just a local copy of the site that you work on for edits (ala Dreamweaver, etc), make sure you follow this bit of advice