Session 19 (May 30th)

May 27th E-mail response from scanned ideas of website

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Dear Irwin,

I have recently viewed your design briefs and you have a very clear understanding of what you are going to do while constructing the website. You should add some background images to your pages to make it more artistic. You should also visit other tourism sites to gather more ideas, as your ideas are too simple and are very similar to the design of the HK tourism website. Since you are a HK citizen, you should also include your own personal routes for sightseeing within HK, just to gibe people another perspective of viewing HK! Attractions shouldn't only be the typical Victoria Harbor or the Ngong Ping 360, you could take the tourists to places which interest you, as a HK citizen, you should know best!

Your site layouts are very thorough, just spice it up with decorative implements, and if you have the ability, y u could add some flashes into your website!

Best Regards,

Lai Ting Fung

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Session 18 (14th May)

Client Interview:

Mr. Lai Ting Fung (I.T. Programmer of HK Tourism Board)

May 10th - e-mail conversation

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Dear Mr. Lai,

I am a student of West Island School, and I am wishing for some help on my oncoming project of a tourism based website for Hong Kong. I have been browsing through the HK tourism website and I have been very pleased with the amount of detail. I would like to know what information I may need to include on my website, and I would most likely be using Adobe Dreamweaver to build my website.

Sincerely,

Irwin Chan

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Dear. Irwin,

I am glad you have an interest to promote HK tourism to international customers. I have recently been receiving e-mails like yours which consist of questions on making a website for tourism, and one thing I must ensure you must not do is copy text from other websites with copyright claims. You can most certainly be punished if you do so, and if you do want to use information from other sites, you must seek permission of the owner of that site. Putting information into your own words are fine, but they must be in your own words!

Adobe Dreamweaver is a very thorough and great software for building websites, but may be quite difficult to use, I suggest you looking for tutorials online foe help. The website must contain detailed information, such as accommodation, food, transportation. You should give enough information for tourists to easily get there way around and will be able to plan their journey from your website beforehand. That is the key of a tourism based website.

I suggest you starting off by making separate tabs for the information to go into, such as attractions, accommodation and many more. You may one to link to weather websites of HK and probably information on the HK currency for foreign travelers.

If you need more help, please inform me anytime!

Best Regards,

Mr. Lai Ting Fung