[Tux4kids-discuss] Website Question

[Matthew McSpadden]

There, now perhaps it will be easier for you to see what I am talking 
about. Let me know what you think about the layout now. I know some of 
the colors are kinda crazy, Pam and her sister have been helping with 
that, but I've been pushing ahead of them because I have the time right 
now, and adding colors and pictures later will not be hard if we have 
the structure.
Check it out
http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/newsitetest/

@ Tim
I understand that Tux4Kids is the umbrella organization, and so I 
revised my idea slightly to address that.

@Bill
I completely understand not wanting to link to the current homepage 
since it is very difficult for an average user to find anything right 
now. In the most recent version of the newsite I did not give you a tab 
like I did tuxmath and tuxtyping, I think perhaps we can just put a link 
to you on the front page or something.
PS. Don't forget to read the FAQ

Matt



Tim Holy wrote:
> 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
>
>
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