For the past…oh 2 weeks I guess, I have been working to complete our teams website.
We are competing in the Canadian Regionals so competition is minimal.
I could have done a better job on the design I admit but its the content thats KEY.
Our site includes a real cool FIRST Canadian Regional TRIVIA. It also has cool downloads for the FIRST competition including a few screen savers…interactive backgrounds. I also took the time to go around our team and gather a LOT more info to pump the site up with amazing stuff.
All the scripting has a moderator backend to allow teacher mods and team members to easily add news or change anything. It even has a very useful page logging system IP log + host lookup + page log.
Took me a while but ALAS its complete. The site is developed in PHP+ASP and has a mySQL backend. There is some Flash too (I couldn’t resist the temptation of placing a SWF within :-))
Too bad you arn’t in the Canadian Regional. We need votes!!
I didn’t really spend that much time on it. A few updates here and there. I actually do PHP+ASP+mySQL programming on the side so I had these components already developed, just needed to change them to implement. That took me a while.
The only thing i was wondering about was if you can just give away Robot Wars like that. I know i bought the game a year ago. You may want to check copywright issues.
I’m slowly running out of idea’s for new updates. I was thinking of making a new game to add, but then it wouldn’t look professional any more.
I was going to add a web ring for other robotics websites, but its has been done already and I would have to develop a new script.
Oh well. I just hope that its good enough to win our competition.
The only thing i was wondering about was if you can just give away Robot Wars like that. I know i bought the game a year ago. You may want to check copywright issues.
I am almost positive that those companies won’t care. Who would make a fuss over something that minuscule. Plus we are giving them free advertisment to a large 14+ age group, Im sure they wont care
Just as I finished posting that an idea came to my mind. Does anyone want to start a FIRST Robotics website advertisment exchange service? Like you give me ad space, I give you ad space etc.
Just as I finished posting that an idea came to my mind. Does anyone want to start a FIRST Robotics website advertisment exchange service? Like you give me ad space, I give you ad space etc.
Just an idea, wondering who would be interested. **
I honestly don’t think anyone would want a banner exchange program. Many of them are space users, non-helpful.
*Originally posted by blueWarrior *
**For the past…oh 2 weeks I guess, I have been working to complete our teams website.
We are competing in the Canadian Regionals so competition is minimal.
I could have done a better job on the design I admit but its the content thats KEY.
Our site includes a real cool FIRST Canadian Regional TRIVIA. It also has cool downloads for the FIRST competition including a few screen savers…interactive backgrounds. I also took the time to go around our team and gather a LOT more info to pump the site up with amazing stuff.
All the scripting has a moderator backend to allow teacher mods and team members to easily add news or change anything. It even has a very useful page logging system IP log + host lookup + page log.
Took me a while but ALAS its complete. The site is developed in PHP+ASP and has a mySQL backend. There is some Flash too (I couldn’t resist the temptation of placing a SWF within :-))
Hey that’s really nice, man!
Keep it up!
I voted awesome.
One thing is this:
If you want to be really competitive in the website design award, you might want to guy a domain name just so it seems more professional. www.stargateinc.com sold me all my domains for 7.95 a year. You can do it cheaply, it looks more professional, and, most importantly, tons more people will type “www.roboblue.com” than “www.stmichaelscollege.ca/robotics” just because it’s quicker and easier to remember.
It’s not a necessity, and I’ll bet you’re going to be the winner, but it would look nice.
Thanks. About the domain. I personally would like to have a domain, but the school wants to make the robotics website look apart of the school (an intergrated team) and have visitors come to the main site also.
I will run it by the administration one more time, but they are very very picky.
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