Products Organization

Products Organization

burr 19 Jun 2012 12:37

I've noticed that there has been some interest in working on the products. As you can see from its current state, I never really got that far with putting together a complete list of products on the page. One of the main reasons is because I really wrestled with the question of what products should be included and which should be left out, as there has been an overwhelming number of products released by the TI community over the years. Moreover, what criteria does one use to decide the in/exclusion of a product? A ticalc.org news feature? A ticalc.org POTM/POTW/POTY award? Good graphics? Good code? Number of downloads?

What do you guys think? How would you design/organize the page?

Re: Products Organization

Jim Bauwens 19 Jun 2012 13:01

Well, for the (computer) software category I would pick programs based on their usefulness and amount of use. For example, TiLP is basically the only competitor for TI's linking software. Without TiLP .. nobody developing for calculator on Linux would be able to be as productive as now. It's also a life saver when TI's products don't work.

Regarding games and software for calculators, it is impossible to list all of them. So indeed, maybe stuff that got featured + top downloaded programs ever. This way we have a list of technically advanced stuff plus stuff people actually like.

Regarding the layout, maybe each category should be in a 'box' (a bit like on the home screen). This way it might look more organized.

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TI-Nspire projects of me:
nCreator | PCspire | Klondike Lua | LogoMagic | EEPro for the TI-Nspire | Other

Re: Products Organization

burr 19 Jun 2012 13:29

You're right, it would be difficult to list every product; that would basically require going through all of the individual file directories at ticalc.org.

What I was thinking for organization was moving each product category to its own individual page, so there would be games, programs, etc.; and then breaking it down even further into subcategories, such as shells, libraries, etc., using the same structure that ticalc.org uses.

One other thing that would be nice is a sorting mechanism based on language, calculator, and author. For example, you could display all of the TI-Basic games for the TI-83/83+ calculators by SiCoDe Software.

How does that sound? Any things you guys would add?

Re: Products Organization

Jim Bauwens 19 Jun 2012 18:55

Hmm, that sounds nice !
Also what about automatically linking notable releases of certain groups/people with the pages (adding an entry, etc) ?
Somehow that would make the entire site work better together.

Also, ticalc.org featured TI-Story :)

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TI-Nspire projects of me:
nCreator | PCspire | Klondike Lua | LogoMagic | EEPro for the TI-Nspire | Other

Re: Products Organization

burr 19 Jun 2012 21:09

While I agree that would be cool, I'm not really sure how to implement it. Could you provide some more details?

The ticalc.org news feature is nice… I need to update the featured community news.