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The 2011 Website
From Epic to Legendary
Stuypulse.com was epic enough in 2010, but it was brought to a complete new level in 2011 thanks to the new webmasters, Ethan Shou and Nolana Wong. While Nolana worked mainly on FIRSTConnects.Us, Ethan improved and updated Stuypulse.com as well as its content. The php backend of the website remained mostly the same as last year, but the frontend saw some important improvements. Many new pages such as the awards page and the executive council page were added, as well as a calendar that shows keeps our team updated on our schedule.
The sidebars were also improved this year. The sponsor bar was updated, and the search box was moved to the top right based on usability studies. To the left, the website awards were replaced by a media box with links to our presence on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and FIRSTConnects.Us. An info box for quick reference and introduction was also put on the mainpage, so visiters using an mobile phone can easily read about us without having to scroll. One of our favorite changes, however, is our new gallery, so we relive all the moments of build season and competition!
The Nitty Gritty:
The site is written in php and calls content and modules on the site from a MYSQL database. Logged-in users can edit any page on the site through our easy WYSIWYG editors. The frontend of the site is based of a previous year's look, meant to look professional but have a Web 2.0 feel. However, it has been streamlined a bit and spruced up with the industry standard JQuery javascript library. This year, we created a custom implementation of the ZenPhoto gallery as well.
Problems? Questions? Comments?
Contact this year's web team on the contact page and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Web coding questions are good too: we couldn't have gotten to where we are now without the generous tutorials and answers from others in the web development community!
-Ethan Shou and Nolana Wong, Webmasters