AngelNet up, we need comments.

Technical Website Design/Showcase
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Hi everyone AngelNet is up and running again,

I posted this once before but I post again because there have been a couple of changes and updates. The site has many new features now including our brand new FIRST Ultimate Quiz (it has over 80 FIRST related questions, and I plan to have more added), FIRST Screensavers and more importantly resources and information about our team in general.

We have a lot more source which needs to be uploaded (more features and updates are coming yesss) but before we go any further I need comments and suggestions plzz.

Visit http://www.archangelrobotics.com. Thanks :slight_smile:

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:yikes: Your site is awesome! After browsing the site for awhile I’ve found only one fault. Try and clean up the FIRST Canadian Regional logo at:

http://www.archangelrobotics.com/workshop/index.php

Just one question, are all the FIRST logos you modified approved by FIRST?

Please evaluate our site:

Thanks!

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I would suggest a different font on the menus. Everything else seems to be good. The flash was good, but very slow. I imagine you guys are running it from a box at home. Try uncapping the limit your isp has set :wink: or get t1.

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Thanks.

We have spent a bit of timing ensuring that it will do well at the Canadian Regional. Constantly upgrading, re-vamping and adding.

Yeh the logo on the workshop page does need to be fixed, I will keep that in mind.

The FIRST logo was taken from the original FIRST logo off the FIRST Canadian Regional website, so I should be fine. Do I have to get the minimized and whitened version of the FIRST approved? Really?

Well actually the Flash will work fast on faster computers. I have a 1GHz system and it works perfectly. As for hosting, our school has its own IT department that setup a computer specifically for hosting with Windows Server 2003 Web Edition on a T2 line :-p No home computer hosting for us :-p

I will see about upgrading the hardware to make it faster.

Thanks,

The colors are fine right? Not to dark not too light? Colours mesh properly? No gaps in the design?

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that site is smoooth. Nice job.

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v. nice. now is it standards compliant? :wink: (heh, i had to find something complain about :slight_smile: )

it really is a great site, though.

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Sweet webstie, very slick. Nice work.

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Well we do usually try to stay within standards. I can’t say that I am 100% but my team has been warned about it.

I have tested it on different browsers and different os. My dynamic DHTML menu was the thing that gave us most problems. It was a bit complicated to align the menu properly at first (on Opera and Safari for Mac I noticed things would change dramatically so I fixed that up asap).

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I’m using Safari 1.2, and it looks fine. good job. on the validation side, though…

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archangelrobotics.com%2Fmain.php

first of all, SCRIPT tags should go inside the HEAD tags.

second, the HEAD tag isn’t closed - there’s no /HEAD tag.

finally, somewhere you’ve got a CENTER tag that isn’t closed - check the link above for more detailed info on that

if you really wanted to be standards-compliant, you could add ALT attributes for all of your images, but you don’t have to.

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Uhh, Dave, the menu doesn’t work at all when reloaded in a new page in Mozilla/Netscape. Just to let you know. You have the award for the CR.

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it works fine for me in Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, and Safari…

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Oh yeh. I will get one of my guys on it asap. It should be done by Friday night. I completely forgot about ALT’s and stuff -_-. So much to do so little time.

About the DHTML menu, yeh I have to fix that its very annoying. I use Mozilla as my regular browser and it really bothers me. I have to find the time to work out the bug.

Well I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch but I wont deny that I want the award :slight_smile: We are trying our best and hopefully it will work out for us in the end.

Has anybody downloaded our screensavers? You like?

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We worked out a lot of validation problems. Most of them were redundant errors contracted in the headers and footers scripts. The others were scattered through scripts.

How does it look/feel now?

I finally got the French translation system working properly. I had to create a completely different French version of the menu, then have it switch based on which language is selected. Makes it easy to update for future languages :slight_smile: