FIRST Topsite?

[looneylin]

There'll probably be many ways to cheat the system no matter what precautions you use, but I like the idea of this.

[Cujo]

I think it would be a good idea, I would try to fit it into the site somehow, it would also be nice to have a list of all of FIRSTs team websites, count me in

[Tim Arnold]

All right, I take back what I said. It is really cool, easy, and simple. Plus, for whatever reason my team's site is #1... and I didn't [intentionally] cheat. I think that 60 seconds or whatever is way too short. Mainly because I have been working on my teams website for the last hour or so and I didn't realize that it was counting every page view on your site (oops! sorry). Now I am stuck with #1 (not complaining, just explaining ) and feel bad. Anyway, I would increase the amount of time/IP logging just so normal website viewers won't falsely boost the ratings.

Thanks anyway, it is alot cooler than I thought (when I last posted it was down).

EDIT: 109 Hits now... heh. I didn't vote though, and we have an 8.5. Score!(well, sort of)

[Calvin]

We won't have any trouble with cookies, since cookies are not used. I'm going to add a 24 hour limit per ip per one hit to each website.

Oh yeah, voting needs a limit too.

[Tim Arnold]

I assume your modifing it right now.. heh. I was working on my site again and got a dreaded X of doom! Went to the topsite and was returned the error

"Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (11)"

Those changes sound good to me! I really wasn't trying to cheat the system, I just happen to have no life and I am constantly working on our site.

[Calvin]

What I made it do, is record the ip and the id of hit... The list can be found here: http://franklin.f2o.org/topsite/data/online.db.php

After 12 hours the listed that is over 12 hours old, "should" go away. And that ip address can once again contribute one more hit for that webpage.

[Babyhueyhnx]

ill help you out if you want.

[Brandon Martus]

Sounds cool. I've added it to our portal on ChiefDelphi.

You're going to change the FIRST logo, though, right? It violates their usage policies..

[Calvin]

Is the violation the fact that the word "FIRST" is no longer attached to the FIRST logo?

[Mike AA]

This is indeed pretty cool, I guess in a way I added a counter?

cool idea.

-Mike

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by Calvin

Is the violation the fact that the word "FIRST" is no longer attached to the FIRST logo?

You cannot really modify the logo... Look at this page http://www.usfirst.org/4vol/FLLresou...ics/index.html
You will get all the information about the logo you want over there.

[Calvin]

http://franklin.f2o.org/topsite/index.php

is that better?

hmmm... now for the button...

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Sounds cool. I've added it to our portal on ChiefDelphi.

You're going to change the FIRST logo, though, right? It violates their usage policies..

Well, there goes my shot at being #1

[Brandon Martus]

The topsite page is not loading this morning. I'm not sure I can leave an image on our welcome page that isn't going to consistently load. Whats happening?

edit: it's loading now .. hmm.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Calvin

http://franklin.f2o.org/topsite/index.php

is that better?

hmmm... now for the button...

The large logo is closer to right, but needs more whitespace around it. the whitespace border needs to be atleast as wide a the FIRST letters are tall. For the button, I think you'll need to abandon the logo entirely. There's a minimum size requirement, and while that's harder to translate to a computer screen, either the logo will have to be really tiny and not legal, or the button will have to be pretty big for that kind of thing.