CSF - Connecticut Science Fair

Hello, and welcome to the new Connecticut Science Fair web site I hope you find it more organized and navigable. We were outgrowing the old structure and having a difficult time keeping it from getting stale. We have expanded(ing) the content and done a lot of cleaning. There are still parts that are being worked on.

The main focus of the site used to be the 200x:The Fair page. It provided the forms and fair results but not much more. And during fair week it would grow into this long scrolling mess.

We want to make the site more useful. Help you guys out more before you get here. That is where the student guide comes in. There is a lot of information in it to help with all phases of the science project. (Okay maybe not so much in what to do a project on, but everything after that is in there!). We made it more prominent and added things that aren't in the paper copy. The helpful articles section is the newest edition there. Take a moment to >check it out.

This is your site. What do you want to see? Would a discussion board be of anyone's interest? Is there something you don't like about it? Anything confusing?

What about browsers and technology? I thought you'd never ask. Designers are locked in a constant struggle between something new and wonderful and finding out it's not supported yet. Even something as simple as the menu bar on the left was difficult to produce consistently across browsers. (In Netscape 4.x it looks a little odd.) Connection speeds is always a major factor.

You can help out by updating your software regularly. No, you don't have to. But there is a cut off point where designers decide they would loose too much to support the older technology. (In reality the designers set the bar a lot higher and management comes along and moves it down several notches).

The other technology related issue is the different contact methods available. Being a volunteer group, we work late and odd hours. Please, please provide us with a valid e-mail address that will be around for longer than two weeks. There are a significant number of registrations and other materials that come in with e-mail addresses that are entirely invalid or no longer exist after several weeks.

So, we've done our best to test the site across several browsers and operating systems and screen resolutions and connections speeds and .... We can't test them all though. If you find anything that you think looks wrong tell us. Even things like colors display differently between laptops and desktops.

--gretchen