FIRST Topsite?

[Calvin]

Was the whole website down or did you see an error? For the button did you see a ??? image or an [x]?

I feel like I’m letting all you guys down...

[Denman]

Somehow i think Cd isn't going to be shifted from the top....

[Tim Arnold]

Originally Posted by Calvin

Was the whole website down or did you see an error? For the button did you see a ??? image or an [x]?

I feel like I’m letting all you guys down...

It was completely down, no ??? or web page. Just came up as a 404.

Its cool, things like this take time to perfect. I appreciate the time you have put into it. As far as I know this is the first FIRST (redundant?) topsite, and it has been progressing nicely. I bet that it will be a lot more popular next year as developers begin to design their websites again (seems like a waste to me - why not just update and improve?).

If this is because of your free hosting, remember that there are people out there will host you for free. (Have you looked at the offer made by sevaa.com?

[Babyhueyhnx]

Starting this morning the site has moved to a new URL FirstTopsite.com. We have also switched to a more reliable web hosting provider. However the old site has not been shut down buy us. Its just another host provider outage.

Please change your links
From:

<a href="http://franklin.f2o.org/topsite/index.php?id=16" target="_blank">First Topsite<br><br><img src="http://franklin.f2o.org/topsite/img.php?id=16" border="0">

To:
<a href="http://www.firsttopsite.com/index.php?id=16" target="_blank">First Topsite<br><br><img src="http://www.firsttopsite.com/img.php?id=16" border="0">

Please rememberer to change your ID tag "index.php?id=16" as well.
**NOTE: You only need to change the id if you copy the above**

[Tim Arnold]

Excellent! Thanks for this great news. I have already updated the code on our website.

[Calvin]

If you do not know your id number, you can find it here: http://firsttopsite.com/lostid.php

[looneylin]

is there any way to make the link work so u just input ur team number b/c the way u have it u have to constantly modify the URL as ur rank changes. it's hassle for my site b/c i dont have control over the site, so i cant upload anything i want when i want to, changes usually occur in one week

[Babyhueyhnx]

is there any way to make the link work so u just input ur team number b/c the way u have it u have to constantly modify the URL as ur rank changes. it's hassle for my site b/c i dont have control over the site, so i cant upload anything i want when i want to, changes usually occur in one week

I think you are thinking the the "ID" in your URL is your ranking which it is not. You need not change anything because the images on your website is being propagated from the FIRST Topsite server. your URLs are merely a pointer to this image. As for the "ID'" this is the tag which identifies your team number in the database. so, when the database detects a change in rank it looks at all the "ID" numbers and changes the image number to correspond with your rank on the site. Thus you need not to change anything.

[Mike AA]

I was wondering if anyone knew anything about FIRST Topsite getting reset or if they lost the data? I went to our team's website and noticed we had jumped WAY up then went to the website and saw that nearly everyone had way lower Total accesses and per day totals. Just curious if this might be a server crash or done purposely?

-Mike

[Babyhueyhnx]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I was wondering if anyone knew anything about FIRST Topsite getting reset or if they lost the data? I went to our team's website and noticed we had jumped WAY up then went to the website and saw that nearly everyone had way lower Total accesses and per day totals. Just curious if this might be a server crash or done purposely?

-Mike

No, there has not been a server crash and no data has been lost. If your access go up its because people are actually visiting your site.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Babyhueyhnx

No, there has not been a server crash and no data has been lost. If your access go up its because people are actually visiting your site.

I was referring to the fact that it shows I have 4 visits, but I have had the site up and been registered since early on, user #18. I had something like 400+ visits now its down to 4 seems something happened?

-Mike

[Babyhueyhnx]

it seems your right. ill have to look into this. thanks for bringing it to our attention.

[Calvin]

I have always intended of resetting the values at the beginning of new build season.

Your ranking is based on the “average hits” you receive per day. Since some websites were less active last build season than this season, their average will be low no matter how much they improved this season.

I apologies for any problems this might have caused.

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I was referring to the fact that it shows I have 4 visits, but I have had the site up and been registered since early on, user #18. I had something like 400+ visits now its down to 4 seems something happened?
-Mike

Is your rank lower then it was before? If so, I will do everything in my power to fix it. Just say the word.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Calvin

I have always intended of resetting the values at the beginning of new build season.

Your ranking is based on the “average hits” you receive per day. Since some websites were less active last build season than this season, their average will be low no matter how much they improved this season.

I apologies for any problems this might have caused.


Is your rank lower then it was before? If so, I will do everything in my power to fix it. Just say the word.

no that isn't neccesary, I was just curious and wanted to point it out to someone. I had a feeling that it was reset for the new season.

-Mike

[Tim Arnold]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

no that isn't neccesary, I was just curious and wanted to point it out to someone. I had a feeling that it was reset for the new season.

-Mike

Looks like the topsite was reset again today. I am definitely digging the new features! Here's what the help page says:

Did FirstTopsite.com get an Upgrade?
Yes, Instead of using our own Topsite Software, we've decided to use the one provided by Aardvark, which is updated on a regular bases.

The new software has a "review" system, which will help us stop any non FIRST websites from joining. This also means that we can bring bring back the"leave a comment," since now we have an option to review them before they go public.

Because the System works differently, the Hits/Ranks will be reset. Within hours websites should return to normal rank.

The only issue I am hitting is that when editing account details, it now verifies the size of your image. It says "It must be smaller than 300x31.", and my team's banner is 283x31. I'm guessing that it checks to see that the banner is smaller than 31px tall, not to make sure that it is up to that large as was previously offered (less than or equal to 31px). I can easily re-size the banner, but every team has to do that when/if they update their information. Just want to verify this is how it is supposed to work.

Other than that, great job with the new updates! I really like the stats page, that will likely be a valuable resource to see how frequently visited sites are. I'm guessing that the old comment/forum system has been merged into the review process... very nice.