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[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by dodar

Please make a different color background lol. white is just too...bright and it makes it look like there is less on the page.

I like the white, it looks cleaner, almost google-ish

As for what to put on the homepage, I'm not sure, I was just stating that it looks a bit bland

Any word if that "Contact team" button will be used in the new version? (as in emails, phone numbers, whatever)

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by thefro526

This shows the slight overlap of the years. (It's not even really an overlap, the text is just really close to the line above it.)

Yea those are all supposed to fit on one line. Maybe we need to move the "previous years" section into the "Information" block so it can overflow more gracefully.

[SteveGPage]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Just tried it on my iPhone 4 and it worked really well. The only thing I noticed is that the years are a bit too far up and are covered a bit by the "Events attended in XXXX" text.

Did video work on your iPad? It didn't work on my iPhone, there was just a screen shot with the no video slash through it.

Video works well, too - at least the ones I tried to see. I got the "Need Flash" message - but that is to play it in the window, there was a link to "download" the video. I clicked that and it pulled it up and played it in a new screen just fine.

Greg - awesome job, as always! Thanks for everything you guys do!

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by SteveGPage

Video works well, too - at least the ones I tried to see. I got the "Need Flash" message - but that is to play it in the window, there was a link to "download" the video. I clicked that and it pulled it up and played it in a new screen just fine.

Hmm, I thought I had configured jwplayer to properly revert to HMTL5 <video> if the device didn't support Flash. I guess I need to revisit this. If anyone has experience here, please let me know.

[Basel A]

If you're looking for suggestions, can we get links between years for events? If I'm on the page for 2010 Kettering District, links to the same event in different years..

[Brandon_L]

I'm not a fan of the homepage, but overall I like the layout much more then the old one. It seems...sleeker in a way. If more could be done with the homepage, then I think it would be perfect!

EDIT:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/9999

Is this a bug, or are you using this for testing? It showed up on the bottom of the teams list, and anything else (such as http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/9993 ) gives me an error

EDIT AGAIN:

Wait, was there really a team 9999 at one point?!?!

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

I'm not a fan of the homepage, but overall I like the layout much more then the old one. It seems...sleeker in a way. If more could be done with the homepage, then I think it would be perfect!

EDIT:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/9999

Is this a bug, or are you using this for testing? It showed up on the bottom of the teams list, and anything else (such as http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/9993 ) gives me an error

EDIT AGAIN:

Wait, was there really a team 9999 at one point?!?!

Any suggestions for the home page? I think we'll put "This week's events" there soon.

I don't know about Team 9999! I've never looked for them before, but it sure looks like we have match data that suggests that they competed. I wonder how this strange artifact came into our system?

[D.Allred]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Any suggestions for the home page? I think we'll put "This week's events" there soon.

I don't know about Team 9999! I've never looked for them before, but it sure looks like we have match data that suggests that they competed. I wonder how this strange artifact came into our system?

Greg, There was a 2010 rookie team that competed at the first GRITS off-season event before they were assigned an official team number. They played Lunacy with a robot kindly loaned to them from 1746, Forsyth Alliance. I assumed the event coordinators assigned them 9999 in the field management system.

[Eagleeyedan]

It works for me but I can't find any videos. I wanted to watch our matches because I didn't get to see any but there are none that I can find. I just says "no video availible"

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Eagleeyedan

It works for me but I can't find any videos. I wanted to watch our matches because I didn't get to see any but there are none that I can find. I just says "no video availible"

What regional? The videos are recorded by members/mentors of FIRST, not FIRST directly nor TheBlueAlliance. We rely on the people who take their time to sit and parse the video then upload online. If someone did not record the video unfortunately there will not be video available. There are a few regionals that should be showing up in the next few days as people have gotten time to parse them, but we are talking about potentially HOURS of time to do so.

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

What regional? The videos are recorded by members/mentors of FIRST, not FIRST directly nor TheBlueAlliance. We rely on the people who take their time to sit and parse the video then upload online. If someone did not record the video unfortunately there will not be video available. There are a few regionals that should be showing up in the next few days as people have gotten time to parse them, but we are talking about potentially HOURS of time to do so.

Milwaukee. I thought they used their own camera because the videos I've seen before are all from the same angle but I am probably wrong.

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Eagleeyedan

Milwaukee. I thought they used their own camera because the videos I've seen before are all from the same angle but I am probably wrong.

I'm fairly certain that the video on The Blue Alliance from the Wisconsin regional for the past few years has been recorded by Kevin Kolodziej of team 1675.

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

I'm fairly certain that the video on The Blue Alliance from the Wisconsin regional for the past few years has been recorded by Kevin Kolodziej of team 1675.

Yeah, he does do a lot.

[Alex2614]

I really miss the direct search to a team's TBA page. Now when one searches a number, they have a bunch of choices to pick from, none of them are from 2011. So, for example, to find my team's records from last week, I have to:

a) search "2614"
b) click on "2614 2010" (or something of the like)
c) once I'm there, click on "2011."


-Point is, I'd really like to go back to where we can search directly for a team number. While the embedded Google search is nice, there needs to be another search bar that links directly to the teams' pages. The list of teams on the homepage is not a replacement. It is kind of a pain to scroll all the way down every time one wants to search for a team.

Just some suggestions. Other than those, the site is great! I don't mean to complain, just a little constructive criticism

[Vikesrock]

Alex, you can browse directly to a teams 2011 page using the following url structure:

http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/XXXX

Where the X's are the team number. No leading 0's should be used.

Examples:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/16
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/111
http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1114