How did you come to do webpage design?

[sg999]

Originally Posted by Celia

Thank you for the moral. Getting people interested in other aspects is something we need, too, as a third of our team graduated last school year. Web page just seems like a good way to this, even if they end up doing build or something.

That's pretty cool that the FBLA are helping you out! It would be fun to team up with a group like that. So now, do you enjoy doing the website or would you rather be solely a programmer?

--Celia

The website I did solely at home, so it wasn't too bad. I don't mind doing the website, but since I made it, I would want to be the one to do the upkeep for it. Given the choice though, I would have much rather let some one else do the website, because it's not something I'm interested in. This year, I'm going to start transitioning the role of website team/webmaster to FBLA because I'm graduating in June, so I kind of have to.

On a different note, I agree with North Sailor in that you never know where you can find people interested in robotics. (Apparently our accounting classes are also helping us take care of team finances.) I really shouldn't talk, because my team is so small, but make sure you do advertising for your team _everywhere_.

[Celia]

Originally Posted by sg999

The website I did solely at home, so it wasn't too bad. I don't mind doing the website, but since I made it, I would want to be the one to do the upkeep for it. Given the choice though, I would have much rather let some one else do the website, because it's not something I'm interested in. This year, I'm going to start transitioning the role of website team/webmaster to FBLA because I'm graduating in June, so I kind of have to.

On a different note, I agree with North Sailor in that you never know where you can find people interested in robotics. (Apparently our accounting classes are also helping us take care of team finances.) I really shouldn't talk, because my team is so small, but make sure you do advertising for your team _everywhere_.

That's a shame you have to do it if you aren't interested in it. At least it's switching hands soon =) How long have you been on your team? When I joined, I was torn between joining programming or starting an animation subteam. I like animation, but I'm thinking of switching over my junior year.

I hear you on small teams (We're at ten or eleven. One team in my area has FOUR. Another has 73). Unfortunately, I think it's a bit intimidating for new people, especially freshmen, to come to our meetings. Especially if none of their friends are interested. That's one more reason I wanted to try a more personal approach to recruiting.

--Celia

[sg999]

Originally Posted by Celia

That's a shame you have to do it if you aren't interested in it. At least it's switching hands soon =) How long have you been on your team? When I joined, I was torn between joining programming or starting an animation subteam. I like animation, but I'm thinking of switching over my junior year.

I hear you on small teams (We're at ten or eleven. One team in my area has FOUR. Another has 73). Unfortunately, I think it's a bit intimidating for new people, especially freshmen, to come to our meetings. Especially if none of their friends are interested. That's one more reason I wanted to try a more personal approach to recruiting.

--Celia

I've been on the team since the beginning of last year, my junior year. I was interested in robotics as a freshman, but I only ever heard one announcement about a meeting that I couldn't make. The only reason I'm in robotics now is because I sat next to some one in robotics last year, and he mentioned it to me once. One of my biggest regrets of high school is probably going to be not joining robotics sooner.

I completely agree with the fact that it's hard to get new people to join small teams, because by the end of the season, you're either all enemies (in which case a couple members would have left) or you're all friends. By the last off season competition last year, we didn't even have enough free people (I was taking ACT's and one was working) to have a human player or student coach. We always start off with a lot of people, but we always lose most of them by the first couple weeks of build season. Sorry, I got really off topic.

And as to website maintenence, I don't really mind, because it was an unique experience, it helped my team out a lot, and it doesn't take too much time now that the hard part's done (the making of the website).

[KeatonM]

I made a website for a contest when I was 10. It was absolutely awful, and looking back, I probably broke every W3 'rule' there is. It had a marquee, links that were the same color as the text, and more.

Even though the site was bad, I liked making it, and stick with it.

Now I'm 18, and throughout the last 8 years, I've been on the staff team of several large gaming forums, two of which I'm still staff at. (one gets 300k page views a month and the other gets over 1 million.)

I've also been working as a web developer with a small company for the last year. I realize that's it pretty much perfect for me.

I'm in college for IT, but I'm doing a web and mobile concentration.

Web design (and moreso development) for me is incredibly rewarding.

During my last year in FIRST I started a redesign effort on my team's website, which will hopefully be live before build season starts (assuming the current members get it done )