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The 2012 Website
From Epic to Legendary
Stuypulse.com was pretty great in 2011, but it was brought to a complete new level in 2012 thanks to the new webmasters, Eric Lam and Alex Wong, not to mention the help of new member Philipp Steinmann. This year, we won the Website Award at the Hartford Regional! Eric worked on keeping the website constantly up to date, whether it be with the announcements or with the calendar. Philipp, on the other hand, worked on expanding Stuypulse's reaches and networks, especially with the creation of FIRSTthoughts.org! The php backend of the website remained mostly the same as last year, but the frontend saw some important improvements.
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 media box with links to our presence on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and FIRSTConnects.Us and FIRSTthoughts.org was kept up to date. An info box for quick reference and introduction was also put on the mainpage, so visitors using an mobile phone can easily read about us without having to scroll. The gallery was kept up to date, as well, making sure that everyone could see our precious moments in the lab and at competition! The videos page was updated to include this year's spectacular animation and matches from this years regionals.
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 continued expanding our 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!
-Eric Lam and Alex Wong, Webmasters