Website Team

Technical Website Design/Showcase
1

I am the Website chairman for my team, and last year nobody wanted to help with the website. However this year, the mentors asked me to build a team to help. I have some people interested, and i am wondering how i should structure a group to help. Does anyone have ideas?? I need to make it so that nobody is overwriting other peoples work.

Whats the ideal size for a website group?

How should the updating be handled (should everyone have FTP access or should the updates be handled by one person?)

What tasks should be assigned??

Any other tips?

2

I believe a website group should have less than five people. On my team, we used to have three, but now the other two are more focused on the robot itself and it’s just me. We did great with three people, and now I’m looking to recruit as well.

When we had the group, everyone had FTP access. Each person was assigned to a page or group of pages to work on, which was also how we prevented accidental overwriting.

One more tip: because of FTP, we were able to do a lot of work from home. Therefore, communication outside of team meetings was essential. I recommend getting your team started with Skype, or at least a good IM client.

Hope this helps!

3

I’m the main designer/developer and I have another person that updates MediaWiki periodically. The whole team pretty much updates the site because we have a wiki, however, I’ve done most of the content.

4

well im running a huge website (srry no links not hosted yet) on robotics and thats just me, one person

but i suggest
one for HTML
one for CSS
one for content
and one for graphics

there four ppl

5

last year, i did the website by myself also, but only with html knowledge. this year, i learned all sorts of new stuff-- still by myself-- and improved i guesss

but thats kind of irrelevant

i think that before you get people to work, you should definately have a plan, and they should definately be prepared to work in that area. its the worse thing ever to have a group of people that CAN’T help you.

plan is a must
and these people should be knowledgeable in stuff like php, html, css, javascript.

editors are an exception; with a good CMS up they can just click and type

6

More than one person should be doing content. It should be re-checked and re-written often to improve it.

7

While I was still in high school, I was our teams websmaster but that was because I knew the most about web design. It was me and one other girl and we both put input in on the website, we sat there and did it together. The only thing the other girl did on her own was translate the website in to Spanish, since I lack the bilingual ability. It worked for our team, our layout was great and so was the content. The two person team won us the 2007 Florida Regional Best Website.

Now, that I’m college I’m helping out another team, now this might sound crazy but we’re the Spirit/Ascetics/Chairmans/Woodie Flowers/Website Team. The team has anywhere from 2 to 6 people on it depending on what we’re doing. Now, I just taught the kids how to work with CSS and HTML yesterday and they’ve already got it down pact. They sent me their layout yesterday and I debugged it for them. Now the other 4 people are doing content off of a template (basically they all have a copy of the layout and they just rename it to be the page they want it to be, ie About FIRST etc). They don’t have sever access just yet but I do so they send it all to me not just to upload it but because they want me to check it. We’re going to take this as a team, if you want to change something on someone elses page you have to talk to the entire team about it (not the entire but the SACWW team.)

I hope that helps, if you ever get stuck feel free to send me a PM