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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Web Programming and Design => Topic started by: Michael_Lee on May 04, 2011, 07:43:17 pm

Title: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Michael_Lee on May 04, 2011, 07:43:17 pm
I've been helping make a website for the robotics club at my school.

It's still in the development stage, and has A LOT of work left to do (we need to actually buy a web domain, for example), but I wanted to get feedback on the design before it gets finalized.

Temporarily hosted at:
http://www.robotics1.multiscale.co.cc


Hosted at
http://spartabots.co.cc (http://spartabots.co.cc)

(The background is temporary, it'll be replaced later, we don't have much content, some pages don't exist yet, and we still don't have a banner to put at the top of the page.)

I'm basically looking for feedback, criticisms, and suggestions on what I should do to improve the design.
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 04, 2011, 08:19:14 pm
It's down :(

Sounds like a big project though. Good luck on it :)

EDIT: Your main site's down too, and seems like it's the entire HelioHost server O.O
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Michael_Lee on May 04, 2011, 09:21:51 pm
It does that: I'm starting to get a bit annoyed.

It's up now, though.
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 05, 2011, 09:48:51 am
Really nice design. I like the navbar a lot, except that I'd suggest making each listed item not suddenly become square when it's hovered. Layout's great, but the box below the slideshow area looks off-balance because there's a large whitespace on the right; maybe you could have the "Who are we?" show more text? And I think the green Spartan (?) logo would look better if its colors "merged" into the site, with a transparent bg or something.

There are a few problems with the background, as I'm sure you've noticed :) But anyway, great job on the design!
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Michael_Lee on May 05, 2011, 09:14:17 pm
Thanks!

Really nice design. I like the navbar a lot, except that I'd suggest making each listed item not suddenly become square when it's hovered.
That's a bit weird -- it shouldn't be doing that.  Thanks for pointing that out.

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Layout's great, but the box below the slideshow area looks off-balance because there's a large whitespace on the right; maybe you could have the "Who are we?" show more text?
Yeah -- the front page is a little empty at the moment.

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And I think the green Spartan (?) logo would look better if its colors "merged" into the site, with a transparent bg or something.
Hmm, merging...
That was a sort of placeholder image (we were going to put a bunch of our sponsor's logos in that area), but I'll look it.
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Ashbad on May 05, 2011, 09:15:46 pm
might I suggest a role model you can try and beat? www.apple.com ^-^

but just joking -- it looks rather nice actually O.o maybe add a few things here and there, like polish up the text style to classy-ify it, but great! :D
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 05, 2011, 09:16:39 pm
And you know there's an extra panel in the background, right? :-
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Michael_Lee on May 05, 2011, 09:20:32 pm
maybe add a few things here and there, like polish up the text style to classy-ify it, but great! :D

Could you clarify what you mean?  Do you mean 'pick a different font' or 'make the writing style classier'?

And you know there's an extra panel in the background, right? :-

Wait, what?
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 06, 2011, 06:09:57 pm
Er nvm. It just looked like it because the background doesn't tile well.
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Munchor on May 08, 2011, 08:32:27 am
I've been helping make a website for the robotics club at my school.

It's still in the development stage, and has A LOT of work left to do (we need to actually buy a web domain, for example), but I wanted to get feedback on the design before it gets finalized.

Temporarily hosted at:
http://www.robotics1.multiscale.co.cc (http://www.robotics1.multiscale.co.cc)

(The background is temporary, it'll be replaced later, we don't have much content, some pages don't exist yet, and we still don't have a banner to put at the top of the page.)

I'm basically looking for feedback, criticisms, and suggestions on what I should do to improve the design.

Both the code and the page look very nice, good job. I have no critics but the overlaying menu, but I guess that's what you want.
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Michael_Lee on May 09, 2011, 12:47:25 am
I've been helping make a website for the robotics club at my school.

It's still in the development stage, and has A LOT of work left to do (we need to actually buy a web domain, for example), but I wanted to get feedback on the design before it gets finalized.

Temporarily hosted at:
http://www.robotics1.multiscale.co.cc (http://www.robotics1.multiscale.co.cc)

(The background is temporary, it'll be replaced later, we don't have much content, some pages don't exist yet, and we still don't have a banner to put at the top of the page.)

I'm basically looking for feedback, criticisms, and suggestions on what I should do to improve the design.

Both the code and the page look very nice, good job. I have no critics but the overlaying menu, but I guess that's what you want.

Could you clarify why you don't like the overlaying menu?  Does it make navigation harder?  Is it just confusing?  Etc...  Maybe I can fix it?
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: Munchor on May 09, 2011, 02:56:11 am
Could you clarify why you don't like the overlaying menu?  Does it make navigation harder?  Is it just confusing?  Etc...  Maybe I can fix it?

Michael, it's a personal choice, I like the menu not to come with me everywhere.
Title: Re: Input: Website for Robotics Club
Post by: ZippyDee on May 09, 2011, 03:49:50 am
I have to agree with that. Personally, I prefer the to have the menu just to stay put. But if you choose to use the floating menu, I think you should at least make it opaque. The transparency just kind of irks me for some reason.