AdamBots.com - New .. Everything!

[RyanCesiel]

Overview:
Over the summer I re-designed AdamBots.com to a fix-width, simple design that is nice on the eyes. Along with the re-design we changed to MediaWiki from TWiki (much, much better..) and from phpBB2 to phpBB3 (decided to get rid of old posts though..).

Last year, seniors maintained our website and are now gone. We decided to do some major updating considering that our site seemed kind of dull. Among the reconstruction/redesign of the website, below are the updates:

Media Gallery:
SmoothGallery - Preloading, Slideshows, and Very Cool Looking..
Videos Uploaded to Vimeo.com (Better Quality!) - Examples From OCCRA
Many Additions to the Media Gallery
Improvements on FIRST and OCCRA Pages

Switching to MediaWiki and phpBB3 were really our biggest updates though, doing the skinning and content chaning/editing/adding took some time.


MediaWiki/Main Site:
MediaWiki is probably the most popular wiki system. One of the most popular website, wikipedia.org, even uses it. Advantages of a MediaWiki over other website systems are Easy File Uploads, Everyone Can Edit, and it's absolutely FREE.

Main Site/MediaWiki - AdamBots.com
Register on Main Site/MediaWiki!


Forums:
Our forums are skinned to fit our MediaWiki design so a similar look can be found on the forums. The free and open-source phpBB3 works great and is much better than the previous phpBB2. Biggest changes include better administration/moderation system, no spam, and more user capabilities.

You can check our forums out here - http://forum.adambots.com
Register Here!

If you register (don't know why you wouldn't! ) on the forums, PM me (RyanCesiel) and I can setup a group for your team.


The End:
We hope to improve the overall quality of the site before the FIRST season starts and maybe add some new design features (who knows.. anything could happen). I also would like to get rid of those dead links that need content (Yea .. those red links ).

If you're team needs a website or help with the design aspect, I'd be happy to help. I've done work for gaming clans as well as Team 245 now. I'm an open-source/free type of person, so there'd be no charge, just send my a nice little PM.

[JesseK]

Very nice, simple design that's quick to navigate. How many hours were spent to overhaul it?

[RyanCesiel]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Very nice, simple design that's quick to navigate. How many hours were spent to overhaul it?

In total, approximately a week to a week and half (up to 4-6 hrs/day) was put for by me in the overall design of the website and forums. After that, Quentin Sheets spent about 3 days on uploading and converting everything. The process is still on going (checking for failures in conversion, and cross-browser compatibility - small errors in Opera and Safari).

Thanks for the response!