[Tux4kids-discuss] Website Question

[Tim Holy]

Hi Matthew,

On Tuesday 17 February 2009 01:10:32 pm Matthew McSpadden wrote:
> Hey All,
> I have not had time to make up a sample of what I am going to describe,
> so I hope you will be able to understand what I am talking about.
>
> I would like to find out if the Tux4Kids community would like to combine
> the Tux4Kids, TuxMath, an Tuxtype websites together as one.

I'd say definitely TuxMath and TuxType should be together. Since Tux Paint 
already has a well-developed web site, I can imagine that they might want to 
keep it. So my guess is that you will want to focus on TuxMath & TuxType. But 
really, it's up to Bill & others to decide about Tux Paint, so you should just 
wait to see what they say.

Note that Tux4Kids isn't an application on its own, it's the umbrella 
organization that unites the three applications.

> At the top,
> just below the header would be three main sections or tabs for each one.
> Then just below it would be a sub menu that would have more specific
> things on it for each one. i.e. The Tux4Kids tab would be blue and hte
> menu below would have things specific to Tux4Kids on it and hte
> backgroung would also be blue. The other two tabs might be red. Then if
> you click on the TuxMath tab, it would change to blue and the sub menu
> would change to have menu items specific to TuxMath. This is actually
> the same idea as how Gforge does their tabs. I really do think doing it
> that way would help this project's presence on the web be more consistent.

I think that sounds great.

>
> The other way to do it is to make three separate websites (they can all
> be on the same web server of course) and simply link from one to the
> other. Each site would have the same basic layout, with differing colors
> and such, but it would not be as easy to go from one to the other, and
> someone on TuxType's website may not know that there is also a TuxMath
> (that was me) unless it is fairly prominent.

Yes, I agree that it might help increase visibility. Especially TuxType and 
TuxMath share a lot of code, so these two are real "sister" applications in 
every sense of the word.

Some of the information could, of course, be common to both applications: the 
developer information, perhaps an "About Tux4Kids".

> Any input would be great. I have this whole week off work, so I am able
> to do a lot of coding on the site so long as I know what you guys want.

Wow, great. Well, I hope others chime in soon, too; I'm excited by the 
progress and I look forward to seeing it evolve.

Best,
--Tim