Session 36 (December 11th)

Fitness for Purpose

 

My product/project is useful to others as it may help foreign tourists worldwide who plan to travel to Hong Kong sometime in the future. The purpose of the website is to promote Hong Kong’s tourism industry and to help the tourism industry in Hong Kong to grow. As there may be many other options that tourists can choose from online, my websites will include very rare attractions and many recommendations by myself, which makes the website unique. I will try and guide tourists to main attractions such as Victoria Harbour and the Peak, but in the meantime I will attempt to guide them to the old parts of Hong Kong, for an intake of 20^th century culture in Hong Kong. Directions will be given to tourists, mainly containing of public transport, just for tourists to blend in with the modern day world of Hong Kong. Recommendations of restaurants and places of rest will be pointed out, promoting cheap yet high quality food and accommodation for tourists.

 

The website must be easily accessible to tourists, such as it needs to adapt to the different levels of ICT of people from around the world. It should be simple to use and should not consist of many drop menus or expanding menus, as this may be rather confusing. I will be using a navigation menu on the left side of the website, which will guide tourists to all pages of the website. A homepage tab will be placed for the ease of access.

Session 35 (December 4th)

Using the tutorial for Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, I created essential files in my folder where I kept my images and text. By doing it this way, it was much easier to use these two pieces of information and put them into the site. Just for faster upload times for images, I resized my images to a resolution of 720 x 480, as this size is large enough to be shown on a website and will significantly reduce upload speeds and will reduce loading times for viewers. To do this, I imported the picture into Adobe Fireworks CS4 and changed the dimensions there.

Session 34 (December 1st)

I have created a simple version of my navigation menu for my website, a screenshot is provided above in a preview via the Opera browser.

The navigation menu becomes highlighted in a blue colour when the cursor moves onto it.

The site does not direct to an empty page as it is not linked yet. The text is bold and easily stands out to viewers. An expansion is needed for more pages such as accomodation etc.

Session 33 (November 25th)

After finishing the basic layout of my website on CS5, (as seen on early posts), this is the list of things I will do in order:

-Adding colour to the website

-Font choices, text (mainly san serif font)

-Background choice that does not interfere with the text

-Images in pages

-Navigation Menu for the website

-Information/content of the site

-Linking pages to the navigation menu

Session 32 (November 17th)

During the process of creating my website using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, an update for the software was detected and I had to revert to the changes that the update had done to the software. The version was updated to CS5, where most of the button layouts were changed and the screen functions were different. This caused difficulties in my processing of my website as I had to retrack what I had down and to use a new tutorial which would guide me through the new software.

URL of new tutorial: http://www.thesitewizard.com/dreamweaver/dreamweaver-cs5-tutorial-1.shtml

Everything was basically similar between the tutorials, all except there were new functions and the pre-existing buttons were renamed, which caused me a while to figure out. I also had problems opening my CS4 website file in the new software, as it didn't allow it. Therefore I chose to redo the website as I hadn't gone too far with it.

Session 31 (November 9th)

Japan Tourism Website

URL: http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/

Publisher: Japan National Tourism Organisation

Information Used: Website layout

Description of website: This is the official website for Japan tourism. I am using this website for the reference of a website layout. Similar to the official website for Hong Kong, important details are included for tourists such as weather, accommodation and attractions etc. Additionally, there is a wider choice of foreign languages and also maps and travel planners for the ease of tourists.

Session 30 (November 3rd)

Discover Hong Kong – Tourism Website

URL: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/

Publisher: Hong Kong Tourism Board

Information Used: Attractions, Dining, Touring and transportation links.

Description of the Website: This website is the official tourism website for Hong Kong. All information about Hong Kong is included there, such as attractions, dining and accommodation etc. The website uses flash (the background image changes at 10 second intervals showing scenery of HK), which also equips itself with a Google search bar for the ease of tourists. Upcoming important dates are shown on the main page for tourists to see and the weather in Hong Kong is clearly shown.