Formula SAE (http://ucalgary.ca/fsae) is an international competition that challenges students to design and manufacture a single-seat, open-wheel style race car (akin to a miniature formula one race car) which attracts over 250 universities, making it the largest and one of the most prestigious student design competitions in the world.
The goal of this project was to enhance the existing web site by establishing an online community and focusing viewer attention to sponsorship activity and procedure. Secondary objectives were to make the site low maintenance, easy to update, and aesthetically timeless keeping in mind of the ever changing nature of the team management and to ensure general consistency from term to term. As an added bonus, we were awarded a prominent placement of our company logo upon the carbon fiber body of the race car.
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March 19, 2009 – 11:23 pm
Posted By: ianhung
- Project URL: <a class=hurl href=http://ucalgary.ca/fsae>http://ucalgary.ca/fsae</a><br>(Now student maintained)
Posted in: Web Development
Time lapsed snapshots of this site in the making. Much of development was spent on planning and on deciding upon a set of proportions for the various columns of the page. I wanted a site that could be viewed easily on most display resolutions and common browser sizes. At last, I found a happy medium, although erring towards the conservative, in displaying the content.
After a lot of work and tweaking, I managed to finish writing my slideshow function. An example of the slideshow function (along with pictures from my trip to Santa Cruz, California) is shown below:
The slideshow function uses a combination of existing lightbox and cyclic apis plus my own custom javascript enhancements. I wanted a slideshow feature that would integrate well with the aesthetics of the page and be unobtrusive. None of the existing slideshows that I could find really appealed to me and were either too gaudy and cumbersome or visually too unique for my taste.. So I put together something of my own. Enjoy!
