Web Competitors 2010

[Foster]

Downingtown Area Robotics (team1640.com) is ready, we've done some recent cleanup (thanks Dan for the tips) and are open for business.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by blayde5

MVRT 115's website has undergone a total reconstruction @ mvrt.com

new design, new layout, everything from the old website design has been changed.

The content still remains as it was last year with pictures, resources for other teams, and videos of competition.

Suggestions/improvements are appreciated

I don't know if it's something that you've written in, or if your host/CMS does it automatically, but I can't view your site because it blocks you if you try to access it using IE, like I unfortunately am right now (the school doesn't let us use Firefox or Chrome). If you're submitting it for the award, you might want to try and lift that.

[darkangel]

http://www.ghafirstrobotics.org/ <--- We did a LOT of work on the site over the past few days.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Karibou

I don't know if it's something that you've written in, or if your host/CMS does it automatically, but I can't view your site because it blocks you if you try to access it using IE, like I unfortunately am right now (the school doesn't let us use Firefox or Chrome). If you're submitting it for the award, you might want to try and lift that.

Either they fixed it since you've posted that, or it's not blocking IE. I can view it just fine in IE8 and IE7 (along with their respective compatibility modes). It's possible your school is blocking it? That happened to us one year. We couldn't view our own site, because for some odd reason the school's firewall/security software blocked it. Possibly since we were on shared hosting, and the IP we used might've been within a range of prohibited addresses.

[blayde5]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Either they fixed it since you've posted that, or it's not blocking IE. I can view it just fine in IE8 and IE7 (along with their respective compatibility modes). It's possible your school is blocking it? That happened to us one year. We couldn't view our own site, because for some odd reason the school's firewall/security software blocked it. Possibly since we were on shared hosting, and the IP we used might've been within a range of prohibited addresses.

Yea, we were having some problems with getting it to work with IE but they should be solved now. IE 8 is recommended but I think 7 kinda works. Albeit, it is a little slow when I tried it on IE so we recommend different browsers.

[Akash Rastogi]

We submitted, but we still have a ton of work left to do. This was coded from scratch in about two weeks and has a fully optimized Google back end. We'll put up an information page about the site soon to show how it all works through Google apps. If anyone has suggestions, feel free.

Right now it can't be viewed in IE. Works best in Chrome or FF.

www.mort11.org

[Salbert]

http://www.marsbot.org/

It's a Mega Awesome website!

[Danny Diaz]

If anyone wants to provide feedback, we'd love to hear it:

http://www.lasarobotics.org

-Danny

[Alex Dinsmoor]

After winning the Traverse City District event's Best Website Award, the FEDS are back with another dynamite website!

http://feds201.net

or if you're reading this through your iPod Touch or iPhone you can visit our iDevice specific site!

FEDS Mobile

Enjoy!

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Danny Diaz

If anyone wants to provide feedback, we'd love to hear it:

http://www.lasarobotics.org

-Danny

The site looks great.
I would suggest updating your videos and photos with 2010 content.

We use an online photo gallery (picasa, flickr) that's easier to update than gallery2. We use picasa , here's a tutorial for developing a php script to integrate those photos
http://dev.vexevents.org/node/7


The DiscoBots are back in 2010 with new students and a whole new design.
http://2010.discobots.org

[Yohan]

In order for this thread to become more effective, it needs to become more like those "comment on the person above you" threads where the next poster comments on the content of their predecessors. Surely, with all these web developers on this site, we'd be able to get more feedback and discussion then there currently is in this thread...

Originally Posted by lynca

http://2010.discobots.org

You have a nice clean site; well organized, structured and definitely easy on the eyes. I like how your banner and navigation bar take less than 110px of vertical space on your site. One thing that could be improved would be how your gallery bunches up some of your pictures, particularly this page, where there are three rows of pictures stacked right upon each other. Would it be possible to set the height of the cells to serve as a buffer between the rows? Also the "Future Aspirations" in your members page is spelled as a single word (intentionally?).

Originally Posted by Alex Dinsmoor

http://feds201.net

The site itself is simple while containing all your content which many teams can not manage. I don't know if this was intentionally done, but your FIRST page has some issues with your "FIRST's Leagues" logos at the bottom where the html is stretching the image greater than the image actually is. It also seems that your navigation bar is disproportionally smaller than the rest of your site.

And finally, I can't leave end without promoting my own team's website: http://www.mckinleyrobotics.org/2010/index.php

Constructive criticism is neither unwanted or shied from and would be greatly appreciated.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Yohan

In order for this thread to become more effective, it needs to become more like those "comment on the person above you" threads where the next poster comments on the content of their predecessors. Surely, with all these web developers on this site, we'd be able to get more feedback and discussion then there currently is in this thread...

I agree completely , I will do my best to add some more constructive feedback for other teams to improve.

Originally Posted by Yohan

You have a nice clean site; well organized, structured and definitely easy on the eyes. I like how your banner and navigation bar take less than 110px of vertical space on your site. One thing that could be improved would be how your gallery bunches up some of your pictures, particularly this page, where there are three rows of pictures stacked right upon each other. Would it be possible to set the height of the cells to serve as a buffer between the rows? Also the "Future Aspirations" in your members page is spelled as a single word (intentionally?).

I'll forward these details onto our web design team. They are furiously working on submitting for the VEX website design challenge !

[RyanCesiel]

AdamBots.com

We used the same basic design from last year but changed things up with the navigation and header. We also added a homepage image display (team picture changes between three pictures) and added a sidebar video popup.

It should work in all browsers except IE6 and 7. I plan on fixing it for IE7 but this will be the first version that I leave IE6 behind with just an update message for those viewing the site with IE6.

Let me know if you guys have any suggestions/feedback!

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by lynca

The site looks great.
I would suggest updating your videos and photos with 2010 content.

Yup, we'll get to it, but not right now - we don't usually plaster tons of information about our current season until after our first event (Dallas Regional this year).

Originally Posted by lynca

The DiscoBots are back in 2010 with new students and a whole new design. http://2010.discobots.org

Very nice, very clean, very informative. No wonder you won in '08!

-Danny

[Akash Rastogi]

site is almost ready for Boston judging

www.mort11.org

Still fixing the code for Internet Explorer, works in FF and Chrome