This is a minor issue that needs fixing.

Do or don't its up to you

Would probably be more efficient resource-wise, as well as easier to style. Currently, the video sometimes doesn't load and leaves the background as flat and grey, which is unsightly. This issue would probably be mitigated by turning replacing the <video> with a simple <img>.

We don't actually update it.

The websites (1418.team) main title page is out of date. We need to change it by adding new images and updating some of the text that is shown to be relevant to this season.

In the "autonomous modes" area the phrase "...the defenses on the field, and the robot automatically builds a custom autonomous for any one of ..." There another word following "autonomous".

This list may have changed.

It'd be nice to have either "Vae Vicits" or "FRC Team 1418 - George Mason High School" when you scroll. There's enough space to look good - especially for the latter as it'll take up more of the bar - and you wouldn't have all that blank space.

Another thought, don't make it jump, but rather transition?

Example:

http://imgur.com/a/rSzjQ

Right now it just jumps from large to small. There should be some sort of easing in between so it isn't so abrupt.

"On the team page the social buttons right next to the logo really deemphasises your logo and makes it appear messy and hard to read (the logo). Hovering over the menu takes away the scroll bars which is really weird and shifts the menu a bit. As such you have a scrollbar to the right. So something isn't quite right there.

The intro text Our team, whose name means "woe to the vanquished," has been one of the most successful and inventive FIRST Robotics teams in the Chesapeake District. takes to almost 3/4 of the way through it to tell you what the page is about (if they read it at all)

The button "2016 Robot" needs to be more descriptive. Perhaps something like "View our 2016 Robot" Or something like that.

The sponsor us page needs more callout on how to sponsor you. A button that goes to a contact page, or something that calls it out more. The harder you make it, the less attention it will get.

Mobile logo needs to be resized for mobile.

Mobile navigation is kinda borked and looks bad."

Example: <meta name="theme-color" content="#333333">

Need to add muted attribute to <video>

On the Team page.

Currently the 2017 robot page needs a few small tweaks to bring it up to date. For example:

This robot is still in use, and will be put on display in the George Mason High School Library after its use has ended.

It's no longer in use, we removed important components and put the chassis on display in the library like the 2016 one. There are a couple other changes you'll need to make.

This should be a really easy fix.

A possible fix is separating the two into separate div classes? No harm in trying. As far as I can tell the glitch has only happened to me.

(Or when the window is shrunk)

Also, Ethan isn't a programmer.

On the branch with-countdown, you can see we had some code for a countdown on the page. We should reimplement that, counting down to the end of build season.

https://github.com/frc1418/frc1418.github.io/blob/master/_pages/contact.html#L12
team 1418 -> Team 1418

https://github.com/frc1418/frc1418.github.io/blob/master/_pages/contact.html#L21
email -> Email

https://github.com/frc1418/frc1418.github.io/blob/master/_pages/robot/2014.html#L19
cim -> CIM

There are sure to be more. I just did a quick run though and this is what I caught

This seems to have been caused by #120.

Just make the header resize naturally again on mobile and it should go away.

We could ask Ballou if he has any info about former team members and what they've gone on to do in life. I know at least one founded and is CEO of a small tech company, I assume there's some others. It would be sort of cool to say "oh look, these people have had a good experience with our team and have used those experiences to go on and do cool things." I don't know. Thoughts, anyone?

In order to be linked from the school website (gm.fccps.org), we need to conform to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 §508 ("Section 508"), which details accessibility standards which need to be met by websites affiliated with government organizations.

There's a helpful list of the necessary tweaks here. We don't seem to be in violation of most of them, except:

• (a) "A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content)." Practically speaking, this means we just need to include alt properties on all images on major pages (as well as videos). This should not be difficult to fix at all; we'll just need to go through each photo on the website and write a less-than-one-sentence summary of each <img>. So, in index.html, line 30 (currently <img src="/assets/img/team.jpg">) would become <img src="/assets/img/team.jpg" alt="A photo of our team">.
• (o) "A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links." To understand what this means, press tab on this page (or anywhere on GitHub, or the school website, etc.) You'll see a formerly-hidden "Skip to content" or "Skip navigation" button appear. You could use any of many open source JS plugins for this, but an easier way is to simply add a link with visibility: hidden; to the top of the header, then an element to which it links immediately after the header. I fixed this one, now (a) is the only one left to do.

Specifically on the Sponsor page. It's pretty barren at the moment.

(Also works when window is shrunk)

New Website
New Team pic (the one from last year)
New Gif (Go pro footage taken from last year)
Full info for the The Team page
Get rid of the Calender section
Repetition in the Udvar-hazy section of the Outreach.

Grab a screenshot from one of these videos:
https://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2010va_f1m1
https://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2010va_f1m2

At one point there was also a photo in Mr. Ballou's workshop. If it's still there someone should snap a picture of it to add here.

Would have pictures and basic information about all our robots, going back to the team's founding in 2004.

There are some photos on the MakerStudio Macs (and some hard drives plugged into them). Look through those, and ask Mr. Ballou if he knows of any further photos.

See http://tympanus.net/codrops/2016/05/11/distorted-button-effects-with-svg-filters/

The current mobile menu system would be used on desktop as well. Not much would change, except that when you hovered on a page, an image would fade in on the right representing that page. It would look something like this:

The only thing stopping me from implementing this is that we need a lot of very high-quality photos. (When conceptualizing it I envisioned a dramatic photo of someone waving the team flag. No such photo yet exists.) So for now, we should probably stick with the current design. We can give this another look next year.

Thoughts, anyone?