Web Excellence Award Winners (Which Teams?)

[OZ_341]

FIRST just posted the regional web winners and mentioned that there were also 75 teams that won the 2004 Web Excellence Award .

My questions are:

Which teams won the award?

What factors do you think earned the recognition for your team?

What is your link so that others can learn from your design?

We'll start the process:

Team 341 won in Philly.

We kept the design simple, tuned in to the FIRST Message, and close to the Award specs. We also made sure that the site conveyed the enthusiasm that we feel for FIRST.

Our link is: www.team341.com

Hopefully we can get a response from all 75 teams!

[Ryan M.]

I think team 48's student designed website won the award. (see front page)

http://team.chiefdelphi.com/

[opnickc]

FIRST already made an entire list:


http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004...te_winners.htm



[EDIT] That's only a list of the best website awards, it doesn't include the excellence award.

[Pat Roche]

134 won the BAE in Manchester, though we are yet to get the little icon thingy. FIRST has tryed to send it to us twice.

-Pat

[Adam Y.]

Is team 691's website down or did FIRST give us the wrong link?? I clicked on it thinking I was going to see a great website. It redirected me to something else.

[Gene F]

Team 343, Metal in Motion was just recently informed that we won a 2004 Web Excellence Award at the St. Louis regional.

www.metalinmotion.com

We too are having problems getting the image to attach to our site.

[Brandon Martus]

Our students won the Excellence Award in Detroit.

[Joel J]

We won the Website Excellence award for [Insert Regional Here]. Is this a gesture of kindness from FIRST, or something? I'll stop speaking right now .

[iBob]

I'd like to see a list of the 75 teams that got the recognition... is there one?

[team222badbrad]

Our team won in Chesapeake.

I think one factor that involves our win is that we update our page frequently.
I have browsed a good many websites over the years and a good many of them are never updated.

www.tigertrons.com

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Texan

I think team 48's student designed website won the award. (see front page)

http://team.chiefdelphi.com/

I think you mean Team 47, in that case, although 48's website http://www.delphielite.com, also won a Website Excellence Award at the Pittsburgh and Canadian Regionals. I must, however, get out my trusty Whip of Mentorship and use it on the student webmaster to induce the addition of greater content and more frequent updates.....muahahahahaaa....

[Kel D]

I'm confused. So, you didn't have to submit your website or anything to receive this website excellence award? Because we got an email saying we were awarded it with the little logo and everything but we thought it was sent to us by mistake.

[Yan Wang]

ALL websites in the FIRST database (ie if you looked at the regional attendees lists at usfirst.org and the team name was linked to a team site) were judged for the website awards. Any site that score 80% or higher on scoring is awarded the Website Excellence Award. I assume the winner gets it too

Team 639 got it for the Canadian Regional. Visit us at www.team639.org

The site was completely redesigned this year so it is not back to the level as it once was in terms of user features for team members. Well, I guess you can't use that stuff anyway.

[jonathan lall]

That image of our website on FIRST's page kinda sucks. I think it was taken with an early version of Opera 7, which has a known positioning bug seen in the title and on the bottom. For the record, the site works in the major three browsers (and other up-to-standard ones such as Safari), but I think there are a quite a few more content-based reasons Woburn Robotics Online did so well; here's a short article I wrote when I first made it, about the design involved. And here's what Woodie had to say about the award. You can see he mainly speaks of resources and the Ask188 feature.

And the winners get these buttons (not quite the same as the excellence ones):


Nothing cool for the Champs winner though. Other than a third trophy...

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by jonathan lall

Nothing cool for the Champs winner though. Other than a third trophy...

One glitch. It's properly spelled "Pittsburgh"....