Building for Touch Screen — thoughts?

[hannab]

Hi,
I am about to build a website that only will be accessed from touch-screen computers in tourist "kiosks." Is there a particular plugin that will be useful for this so nothing needs other than a touch to work? And how about if there's a "Sign Up" feature on the site? Is there a feature that can load an on-screen keyboard so the visitor can punch in his/her name?

Is there a specific theme that makes this simpler to do? Should I perhaps just use a mobi-site plugin and resize for the larger screen?

I've never done this for touch-screens before and any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks!
Hanna in Tahoe

[NicktheGeek]

What touch screens will be used? Many newer ones have built in functionality for the keyboards and other issues you might need to be aware of.

[hannab]

Hi Nick,
looks like it's a regular desktop computer... but they are only using the screen, not the keyboard.
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/vostro-360/pd

//Hanna

[NicktheGeek]

before spending a lot of time seeing if you need to make a keyboard for your site you should see if there is something on the computer that will do it. Something built in is going to be much more functional.