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Unread 07-02-2011, 12:43
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Re: Web Competitors 2011

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Thank you for your input. I am going to implement those content related changes. It would be helpful to know your computer's resolution.

Font color is an area that I was having issues with. Also, I was having trouble getting the links to be noticeable without the grey highlight.

Would you please try looking at the site again. I changed the font. Though I know it won't totally fix the black on red issue, it may help. The font looks crisper to me.
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My computer resolution is 1920x1200. To get the menu content centered you could try adding a text-align:center; or a margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; to your css.

I checked your website again and yes the font looks easier to read. I understand that it takes a lot of work to change colors/fonts on websites. For the links perhaps some shade of blue?
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Unread 07-02-2011, 13:00
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Re: Web Competitors 2011

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Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes.

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.
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My computer resolution is 1920x1200. To get the menu content centered you could try adding a text-align:center; or a margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; to your css.

I checked your website again and yes the font looks easier to read. I understand that it takes a lot of work to change colors/fonts on websites. For the links perhaps some shade of blue?
Thank you for your help. That is a high resolution monitor .

I went with a light blue for most of the links and they look good without a highlight.
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Re: Web Competitors 2011

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Unread 17-02-2011, 13:56
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Re: Web Competitors 2011

I had to go into a sudden surgery and didn't get the website to where I wanted it, when do the judges generally start analyzing websites?
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Unread 17-02-2011, 14:59
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Re: Web Competitors 2011

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I had to go into a sudden surgery and didn't get the website to where I wanted it, when do the judges generally start analyzing websites?
Kind of wondering the same thing.. We got the website submitted but we did notice when inspecting it closer the some of the files got goofed in the transfer. It's fixed now but I'm just wondering if that will hurt us in the long run.
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Kind of wondering the same thing.. We got the website submitted but we did notice when inspecting it closer the some of the files got goofed in the transfer. It's fixed now but I'm just wondering if that will hurt us in the long run.
The websites are usually judged two to three weeks prior to the regional, depending on the organization of that regional. As I mentioned before, unless it has suddenly changed, the version of the site that they will see is the version you had uploaded at exactly noon today. In the past the FIRST system takes a capture of the directory at the deadline, and that is what is judged.

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The websites are usually judged two to three weeks prior to the regional, depending on the organization of that regional. As I mentioned before, unless it has suddenly changed, the version of the site that they will see is the version you had uploaded at exactly noon today. In the past the FIRST system takes a capture of the directory at the deadline, and that is what is judged.

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Eeks. Thanks :\. Lets hope the kids got the files swamped out in time then.
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Re: Web Competitors 2011

i know for a fact that last year "snapshots" were not used. one of our mentors is a website judge for regionals we dont compete in and she would actually judge them in her spare time at the meetings. judges are just given a list of urls you have nothing to worry about
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Re: Web Competitors 2011

Check out COMETS Robotics' latest and greatest update to our site! We switched over from static HTML/CSS to Joomla. It has made our lives much easier.
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Unread 19-02-2011, 23:43
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We changed a few things, but still mostly the same: http://www.247dabears.com
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We had some fun adding a Zenphoto gallery this year... if you're using a custom CMS, this can integrate very nicely without messy iframes, etc.

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