About This Website

This website was built by Viking Robotics member Julian Powell during the 2011-2012 season as a replacement for our old website. Our goal was to create a clean and aesthetically pleasing design with added functionality that gives the viewer a more in-depth look at our team and FIRST in general.

The content on this site was almost exclusively custom coded by Viking Robotics students. Standards compliant XHTML 1.0 and CSS 3 make up the backbone while JavaScript and the JQuery library provide browser scripting for interactive elements. The calendar was created with Google Calendar but was rerouted to a custom stylesheet using a PHP script provided by RESTYLEgc. The resource web search is a specially configured Google Custom Search managed by our web team. The videos in our gallery are embedded from YouTube.

One of our goals has been to make our website as accessible as possible. We have tested it extensively on many browsers, operating systems, and screen resolutions. While some CSS 3 elements are not supported in older versions of Internet Explorer these are merely aesthetic and complete functionality is available over all platforms.

Contact the Webmaster

Questions of comments relating to this website can be directed to our webmaster Julian Powell at ulianjay@gmail.com.