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The dyscalculia day should have a website of it's own (closely linked to this site of course), where people and the media can go to quickly learn about dyscalculia - and the events.

Since dyscalculia day isn't ours and ours alone, I could very well imagine that companies, experts and such would also want to use the day. The more the merrier. They could be mentioned on the site too - though we would split the non-profit dyscalculiaforum events from the other. Right? What do you think?

I'll buy the domain the next couple of days - but what do you think it should be?

1. dyscalculiaday.org
2. dyscalculiaday.com (looks better but usually means that a company is behind it - a fact I didn't know when I started dyscalculiaforum.com :D )
3. ??

You decide!

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I was wondering if the .org option makes it look more charity-like rather than the .com which might make people think that someone's making money off it.
How will the site be different to this one? Will it be more information based rather than forums?

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It would be one page (no menu with different subpages and all that) where people can easily get a feeling of what dyscalculia is, why there is such a thing as dyscalculia day, and info about the events.

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People! What do you think? Don't want to go buy a domain everybody doesn't like. So please share your opinions.

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I'd have to vote for DyscalculiaDay.org
The .org does make it sound less commercial and more credible.

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I agree, .org is better :)

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DyscalculiaDay.org looks the way to go:p

You wrote that: "It would be one page (no menu with different subpages and all that)..."
But we can create it as what is called a 'Landing Page', within the Forum.
Then it could have a menu of links to pages within the Forum.

Geoff:p

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Very new member here but I agree that .org would be the way to go. It is more informative based than .com or others.

Also as the forum is already well established with fantastic information and links the web page need only to have one link directing people to here.

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I like eoffg's idea about the landing page. Good for people who aren't sure where to go on the site and makes it easier to navigate. Just something really simple but helpful.

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Ok, I'll buy the domain then.

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So, do you have the domain? Can we have a web link to it?

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Well I've checked a domain site and it's not registered. I just had a thought though. Who's actually paying for the domain? I mean, is it fair that one person should have to pay for something that benefits everyone?
It's a shame there isn't a way to donate money, cos I bet we'd have loads by now. An international trust fund!

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I haven't made the site yet, so it's not up yet. Been busy with exams and a new internship, but I have this next weekend to do it :)

I'm paying for the domain (I'm the admin). It's not that much. We're (Countess, eoffg and I) still not convinced the whole donation thing would be a good thing. You all should know where the money go down to the last cent IF we ever do it, and I have no idea how to do that. Also, there are tax issues that means I wouldn't be able to be the one who takes care of donations. The Danish state would take half, and if it gets to a certain amount, my state scholarship will be affected (we get paid to go to school here, but can only earn a certain amount on the side - and even though it's a donation it would be in the category of a paycheck because the forum isn't an organization). That, and the fact that I'm dyscalculic and about to pee my pants just thinking about it :D

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Then why not just use the home page here?

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I agree with silva. maybe on the main page making a big sub-menu with a page full of what you would put on the .org site

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also how about a supporter- like say Dave Ramsey (deals mostly with money and staying out of debt but he is widely known and I think he would find this very interesting espcially since dyscalculia causes problems with things like budgetting)

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buy both ... use one. People often mix up the two. That way, if they mistype .com for .org, or vice versa, either way they will end up at the site. Directnic.com has domains for $15.

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I might be digging up old stuff here but if this is still in question I agree that .org is what you should use, .com is reserved for commercial interests. But all the same it's just as gooup says, might as well register both and have .com link over to .org

As for the money aspect, I applaud ert for taking it upon yourself to pay for it. But you could also set up paypal donation on the website to help keep it up. Members here can pitch in a bit with what we can. Using paypal is quite easy, I use it myself now and again. And the only fee they ever take for anything is a small transaction fee. If someone send you 100 dollars over paypal, paypal takes 3 $, for example. No monthly fees or anything like that. And the beauty of it is nowadays you don't even need a paypal account to pay someone/something over paypal.

Again, if I'm bumping old history here, I'm sorry.

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9/9/08
No, you have a very clear way of expressing yourself. I'm interested in Paypal. I tried to set up a skype account once, but never could get it to download properly. So I didn't set up a Paypal account either. I appreciate your expertize. - justfoundout

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Thanx :-)

I'm actually looking into how receiving payment via paypal works for an unrelated thing I have going. If you guys need some help with paypal, PM me and I'll be happy to help out if I can.
As a company they are really making a point in trying to be easy to use and for payments they have lots of options these days, you don't even need to use a credit card if you can't or don't want to. And I trust them about as much as any other major bank, I've dealt with them before and know many others who have.

Also on a related note I have my own domain and website I use privately. I've had it for years now and pay 48 $ a year for it. Which is agreeable. I use One.com and have had no problems at all really. There are probably even cheaper hosters out there to.

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Thanks for raising this, as I've been thinking recently that we should start preparing for next years Dyscalculia Day, soon.
So setting up a Dyscalculia Day website, might be a good place to start?
I can provide the hosting for free, so I just need to get the domain name registered.
Though I can start building the website, straight away.

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9/10/08
That's a great idea. I hope that we'll have lots of colorful ideas on our new website. - justfoundout

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I don't know who to approach at Google, but you know how they change the lettering for the name for different events/holidays (e.g. The Olympics, artists' birthdays)? Maybe they can do one for Dyscalculia Day? For people who aren't familiar with what I'm talking about, they have one today for the collider. Since it may change before everyone gets to read it, I saved the picture, link.


When you click on this picture on the Google website:


It takes you to this list of resources:
http://www.google...ider&hl=en


Maybe something with distorted numbers for Dyscalculia Day? I know when I see the page has changed for one of those days and I don't know why, I'll click on the link which brings back topic relevant search results on the holiday or person featured. With all the Google users around, that would be a fairly large potential audience. eoffG, let me know if you want me to look into that more. I know we have some very talented artists, maybe one of them can come up with a design. I'm more of a stick figure person myself! :D It'd actually be kind of ironic if they did help us out as Google's based on a mathematics term! ;)

Another thing I can think of would be to let politicians know. Sometimes in the US, the Congressional Reps will read proclamations for certain days on the floor.

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A CNN article explaining it:
http://www.cnn.co...index.html

Here are some more Google "doodles" (that's what they call them):

http://www.google...logos.html

Some background on how the Doodles started:
http://googleblog...odles.html

Dennis Hwang appears to be the main person behind the doodles. I didn't see anything on their site for an email address, but if the Admins would like me to dig around some more, let me know.

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Well, our Dyscalculia Day website is about to get started!
One of Members has offered to cover the cost of domain name registration and the hosting.
So it should be in place next week:)
I think that it will be; www.Dyscalculia-D...

Where I think that having the - between dyscalculia and day would be best.
As you can't have a gap between words in a domain name.

As for the 'header', we have plenty of creative people here. So I'm sure that we'll be able to come with our own one.
Though we can all work together, to develop the content for the site.
What do we want to say there?
What information do we want to include?

I'm also thinking about creating some 'sub-domains', for different countries?
Which Members could use to organise what will be happening on Dyscalculia Day, in their country?
Of course, these would be just for sorting out details.
Where most of the discussion will happen here.

For example, as I'm in Australia, I'd create a sub-domain;
www.Dyscalculia-D...
So that with our Australian Members, we could work out what we are going to do here? Where I'm mainly thinking of the Media.
All the Aust. newspapers, TV and radio stations.
So they would mainly be used for planning.
Though it would probably combine Australia and New Zealand together.

But of course, the international site, would be the main one.
Where we promote Dyscalculia Day.

So it's time to get started!
Geoff:),

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10/9/08
Dear Geoff,
I want to try to support the "mainstream" thinking of other forum members as to what we should include. Are we trying to be 'upbeat' about our challenges? Could you give us a few of your ideas to put us on the right track? - justfoundout

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Hey guys, if you need any help with programming I am a web developer so I can do stuff with databases and dynamic content. I'm not much of a designer though, but if you tell me what you want it to look like I can probably make it happen and I am more than happy to help with this project :)

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Hi:),
I'm really glad that you have opened this thread again today, as I've got some wonderful news to report:)
Thanks to the generosity of one of our Members, www.Dyscalculia-D... is now registered:)
But her generosity extended to providing us with the Server space to host our new site:)

So we are now able to get started on Dyscalculia Day '09.
I've quickly created a page there, just so that you can visit it:
http://www.dycalc...org/Forum/

Which is nothing like what it will look like. I just wanted to something to see that it is actually there!

Though an important thing that you might have noticed, is that the url address has the word; /forum added to it ?
This is because it is actually what is called a; 'Sub-Domain'.

While dyscalculia-day.org is the main Domain.
Which is also called the 'Parent Domain'.
It can have 'Child Domains' attached to it.

So what's this got to do with things?

Well, we will have our main Dyscalculia Day website.
But as well, Members can have attached, a website for their own country.
For example:
http://www.dycalc...ay.org/UK/
Or in my case:
http://www.dycalc...Australia/

While all of us can contribute to the main site, we will also have a site for our own country. So that for example, I could work with our Australian Members, to plan and promote Dyscalculia Day in Australia.
Of course, the main site will remain the most important one.
But these country sites, will provide an opportunity to provide information specific to your country.
Though this is just what I'm thinking of, so I'll wait to hear your thoughts and ideas.
Geoff:)

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10/10/08
That's great, Geoff. Good work. And thanks for explaining about Main Domains and Child Domains. Making a right decision about something like this can have far-reaching effects as a project grows, and what you've chosen looks like it will provide the right foundation for expansion in ways that we, perhaps, have not yet even imagined. Making a wrong decision could have "fenced us in". I'll take a look at our 'spot' as soon as I've posted this. - justfoundout

It's really there! Whoopie!

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Hi Geoff, this is great!

Regarding the different countries websites, it'd be great if they'd contain links to ressources on the web such as local LD associations and places where to get tested.

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Hi Toe_Nail:),
That would be really good to develop a list of links to resources for each country.
I'm wondering about the best way to go about it?
So that all Members can contribute information to it.
I'm thinking of creating a separate Resources forum on the Dyscal Day site, where our Members can post information/ links.
Where I'll create sub-forums for each country, so that members know where to post their links.
The main thing, is to try and keep it organised.
So that Members can see what links have already been posted for their country.

Then I can easily find all of the links for each country, and copy and paste them onto each countries sub-domain site.
Though Members can also discuss there, anything else about what they want added to their countries website. Also how they want it to look, the design and any graphics? As well as contribute to the text, where each site will need an introduction.
So it will basically provide us all with some work space to put it altogether.

Cheers.
Geoff:),

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10/11/08
Dear Geoff,
I know that there is a site for MENSA International that does something similar to what you are describing. After clicking on this link,

http://www.mensa....

click on National Groups over on the left side. Clicking on Australia, gives you

http://www.mensa....

and from there, clicking on Join Mensa, over on the left side, gives Australian addresses for how to get tested there, where to pay, the age requirement in Australia, and what other tests are acceptable in Australia.

http://mensa.org....

Each country's page has a different 'look', and information specific to that country. And some country's sites are not written in English, but rather in French, Korean, Japanese, etc.

I just wanted to show what others have done - whether good or bad. - justfoundout

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Who bought the domain? You are awesome. My bank advisor thanks you :)

I vote that we use the Wordpress system. It's a blogging software, but you don't have to blog in the normal sense - you can add pages instead of blog posts. This is why I prefer wordpress:

1. Wordpress software is 100% free.

2. We can make as many as we want on our domain.

3. It is easy to make pages - you edit text just like you edit a word document.

4. No need for even basic html knowledge or other computer languages. So everyone have a chance to participate.

5. The google search machine LOVES the wordpress system - the bots find wordpress blogs very easy, which means we have a chance of ranking high (meaning ending up on page 1 or 2 when people search for dyscalculia on google).

6. RSS feeds are great. It's a way to subscribe to new stuff on a website or blog - and you can do that with wordpress. That means that people that come by our sites don't have to remember to come back, they can just subscribe to our RSS and get the news automatically in their RSS reader. It sounds a little nerdy, but it's a very common thing these days.

7. We can easily edit the layout and make our own cool stuff. Meaning that we get pages that look VERY professional, which we REALLY need when trying to get media attention. They don't like messy, boring pages. Simplicity is the way to go, both in design and what we write, but that's another discussion.

http://wordpress....

I can easily install the system, if we need someone to do that.

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That's an interesting suggestion, to use WordPress for the sub-domains for each country.
Where we need something that is easy to use for Members.
But this is perhaps getting ahead a bit, where we first need to work out what we are going to do?
Then use the software that best suits what we are trying to do?
Though I must say that I have a second objective for setting up these Dyscalculia Day sub-domain websites for different countries?
To organise information, by country.

A problem that we have here on our Forum, is that there is plenty of helpful information amongst all of the posts. But it can difficult to find?
Where for example, often Members are looking Learning Disability Associations in their country? While you can do a search, it can still be confusing?

But this is where these sub-domains for different countries would helpful.
As you could go straight to your country and then the page for all LDA's.
Where pages for information about; 'Where do I get a diagnosis?' could also be created? As well as information about educational institutions that recognise Dyscalculia.
So I see this as an opportunity to begin putting all of this and other information together.
Though to do this, we need to develop teams to look after the site for country and add new information. Which might begin with a team of one person, to start with?

So basically it provides an opportunity for Dyscalculics to get organised.

Geoff:),

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Perhaps it is time to re-define the purpose of the forum? As in the dyscalculia_Day website for the easy access information, FAQ and such and the forum a place to talk/exchange, a tool to bring dyscalculics, parents of dyscalculis closer?

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But we need to have that information here as well, as we don't want people to have to leave the Forum to find it. We just need to work out where we would add it here?
Perhaps it could be added to our Navigation Menu on the index page? Where we can add information pages.

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We'll just add a "Dyscalculia Day" page and link in the navigation with the same information, in all the different languages our members can speak (and therefore translate for the forum). And around the time of March 3, it'll be mentioned on the first page in the news, and in the forum. No problem at all.

I think it will all look a bit clearer when we have a test-page with all the information we want. Then we can add and remove stuff until it's perfect.

And when it's done we hijack everyone to translate into their language, and they make a list of places to get help locally.

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These are the topics I imagine the Dyscalculia Day site would be about. What do you think?

What dyscalculia is
Who we are
What we want
Where to go for help
What you can do to spread the word

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10/14/08
When you need "Math Help" - links, tutors.

Would this be a separate heading or would it go under 'Where to go for help'? Is 'Where to go for help' specifically about 'help' in getting tested?
-justfoundout

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Hi JFO,
That would introduce a commercial element to the site, as soon as we include 'links, tutors'. Where we would be seen to endorsing these links. tutors. Which would basically be advertising.
Ert and I have a No Advertising policy here on the Forum, which we will apply to our Dyscalculia Day site as well.
But, it does raise the question about what would actually be included under: 'Where to go for help?'
Geoff,

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10/15/08
The Math site links that I know are 'free'. I was thinking of 'tutors' as people who would help, not hired tutors.
- justfoundout

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I saw on Facebook that there will be one this year. I haven't seen Dyscalculia Day posted on here and it's coming up rather quickly. What's up with it? Any plans?

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Yeah I made the dyscalculia day event on facebook. I'll write something about dyscalculia day, one of these days on the front page here.

You guys have any suggestions?

I still see the main goal as "spreading the word". It will be for many years, until it's just as known as dyslexia.