Touchscreen-Oriented Website Development Recommendations for Non-Microsoft Platform

Question

We are currently designing a website that will be accessed from kiosks in a museum. Users will need to be able to browse through a number of different web pages that will currently contain static HTML content as well as go through various interactive presentations that will be based on flash and run in flash player. Users may need to input some information into a simple registration form from the kiosk as well.

One reason that we are currently designing this to run in a browser is because the same site and interactive presentations that are being accessed from the kiosks will also be available on the web.

Does anyone have recommendations on whether this design will even work or whether we should simply build two versions of the content, one for web and one for kiosk? What experiences has anyone had with building a website that is available on touchscreen and via the web?

This is a first time effort both for myself and for my company so any warnings, suggestions, recommendations at all would be greatly appreciated.

Note: We are currently working with Flash to build our interactive content and a LAMPP stack for the server-side everything so SilverLight is not really an option.

Answer 1

Designing for kiosks is 90% UI optimization. Have a read through this

http://www.voltagecreative.com/blog/2008/05/best-practices-of-touch-screen-interface-design/