About the Warlocks Web Site

Since 2005, the Warlocks have had a website. We won many awards for our site design over the years, but recently, FIRST has discontinued the Website Award and replaced it with a Media Award that encompases many other areas, but is only awarded at the Championship level. Because of that, we have decided to focus our website on promoting the team and communicating with our comunity.

The site makes use of a CMS system, Cutenews, for adding dynamic content to some sections of the site. This allows quickly adding news to the site from a web browser simply enough that almost anyone can do it.

We have upgraded and organized our photo collection, now using Zenphoto. With over 7000 photos from all our 10-year history, it's a part of the site we are proud of for it's historical record of the team.

We have Facebook integration with a page that shows our Warlocks Facebook page, as well as Like and Share buttons on every page. Further social integration is done with Twitter and we have a page of Twitter widgets showing robotics and team related content. Of course, we encourage our Warlocks family to interact by using both our Facebook page and Group, or following us and sending tweets out to @Warlocks1507 or #FRC1507 on Twitter.

The latest project, just in time for regional competitions, is nearly real-time match data for our matches. This will provide a convenient place for our fans at home to check how we are doing when we are away at regionals. We hope to be able to send our match results to our Twitter and Facebook feeds as well.

Our Wiki is a little-known or appreciated collection of links, files, and data useful to our team. It started out as a place to keep links to hard-to-find parts, but has expanded to include information for the programming and web teams. As a wiki, it is community-based and we welcome others to use it and contribute information.

We also make use of Google Calendar for a central schedule of events and have it integrated into this site.

Currently, the Web Team consists of a small handful of students. The Web Team Mentor is Al Gritzmacher. He maintains the domain and server that the website is located on. He also provides assistance to the Web Team when they need it.

Omissions, corrections, or suggestions for improvement of this web site are welcomed. Please include as many details as possible and email them to webm...@warlocks1507.com.

See a history of the Warlocks web sites over the years.