Offering Website Evaluations

[BordomBeThyName]

oh wow, You're gonna be way busy with these, but if you could fit www.sdarobotics.org into your lineup, it'd be great.

[Mihai]

I'd greatly appreciate a review. Thanks so much!

www.thunderchickens.org

[Ashwin]

Can you please evaluate my teams site, Monta Vista Robotics Team #115

www.mvrt.com

Thanks a lot

[KathieK]

Michelle has the right idea - if you are interested in improving your website, look at the criteria used in evaluating the sites for the website award (even if you are not planning to compete for the award). You can ask anyone to do it using this criteria.

One thing many sites forget to do is check spelling and grammar. And then check all links to see if any are broken. Two very simple things to start with. Ask an english teacher at your school for help with the proofreading. Another common mistake is to forget to say who you are and where you are located, right up front, on the homepage. A third thing is not defining your audience - is this a website for the public to learn more about you? Then don't have team content on the homepage (like, the bus will be picking us up on Wednesday morning at 6:00 a.m. in front of school)! Put it on a team sub-page!
Concentrate on the content of your site, then the layout and design aspects. That often takes two different skillsets; it's not easy for one person to be both the designer, the webmaster, and the content editor.

Hope these tips help!

[Kyler]

hey, our website is new this year so we didn't have it judged. I am sure there will be lots wrong with it so please let me know. www.team1625.com . you can say stuff in the open.

[zivo123]

we would love it if you can review our site... www.ortrobotics1690.com
dont be too mean

EDIT: out on the open is fine.

[Cptn Patches537]

www.team537.com

im sure our web designer would love the advice! a post on the forum is fine.

[Equinox]

Originally Posted by zivo123

we would love it if you can review our site... www.ortrobotics1690.com
dont be too mean

I don't know, perhaps it is just me but your website seems to be malfunctioning. I click on links and the whole page literally disappears and all I see is that metal background. I refresh it goes back again and then disappears just as fast. I just wanted to look at it and I can't. Using Firefox here.

The website designer must have liked heXen...

[Sunshine]

Originally Posted by Equinox

I don't know, perhaps it is just me but your website seems to be malfunctioning. I click on links and the whole page literally disappears and all I see is that metal background. I refresh it goes back again and then disappears just as fast. I just wanted to look at it and I can't. Using Firefox here.
.

Same thing happened to me with both Firefox and Safari

[swaknight]

Originally Posted by Equinox

I don't know, perhaps it is just me but your website seems to be malfunctioning. I click on links and the whole page literally disappears and all I see is that metal background. I refresh it goes back again and then disappears just as fast. I just wanted to look at it and I can't. Using Firefox here.

IDK if this is the only problem but here is what i noticed.

1. you start the menu out hidden, but that would only explain the menus, not the pages.

2. (most likely from what i saw) you never ended the iframe. Its not a safe ending one either (meaning <iframe ....> </iframe>

I only glanced at the code so i might have missed something but i think that the iframe is messing you up in firefox and safari.

[erikab]

Team 1717:

www.dpengineering.org

PM, please. Thanks, this is a great resource to all of the teams!

[AdamHeard]

lol, this won't be pretty...

the site really needs to be worked on, so, let us know what you think.

www.greybots.com

[neutrino15]

If you could review our site, that would be great.. We were almost certain we could win this year...

http://stuypulse.com

[Samuel H.]

The list:
1. http://robonauts.org/
2. http://www.waialuarobotics.com/
3. http://www.whitebearlakerobotics.com/
4. http://www.team399.org/
5. http://www.firstteam397.com/
6. http://www.fairportfirst.com/
7. http://www.vandenrobotics.org/ (Pm)
8. http://www.team56.com/
9. http://www.project1726.org/2008web
10. http://www.uberbots.org/
11. http://www.team1676.com/
12. http://www.2080.lafrc.org/
13. http://www.team587.org/
14. http://www.core2062.com/
15. http://www.sdarobotics.org/
16. http://www.thunderchickens.org/
17. http://www.mvrt.com/
18. http://www.team1625.com/
19. http://www.stuypulse.com/
20. http://www.hammerhead226.org/
21. http://www.ortrobotics1690.com/
22. http://www.team537.com/
23. http://www.lelandrobotics.com/
24. http://www.dpengineering.org/
25. http://www.greybots.com/
26.

[Woe]

This is our "corporate" website, not the student-designed site, so it wouldn't follow the same criteria. If you wouldn't mind, and only when you get a chance and have a break between student-sites, I'd love it if you could provide overall impressions.

It doesn't display well in Firefox; not sure why. www.rivercityrobots.org

Thanks for all the work you are doing! You are providing great feedback!