Session 24 (September 13th)

During the weekends, I had a tour around the outskirts of the busy metropolitan world of Hong Kong into the unseen and unvisited areas of Hong Kong. Below are a few images of landmarks I recommend to tourists to visit for some cultural areas of Hong Kong.

Market in Central:

Markets are the common features in Hong Kong lifestyle, from fresh fish to fresh meat, everything is available in the long streets of markets all around Hong Kong. This market in particular, heads downwards into the Central Business District of Hong Kong.

Victoria Jail:

Located directly next to the police station, this jail is remote presently and was used as a prison back in the 1900's, due to it's lack of space, it was very soon used for other purposes during the time.

Central Police Office, Hollywood Road.

Built in the early 19oo's, this is the first Victorian style police station and is the only of it's type to be visible in Hong Kong. An interesting fact is it is directly linked to the Victoria Prison, which is now a remote jail only used for special viewing purposes only

Session 23 (September 3rd)

Tutorials:

Due to a limited skill and knowledge of using Adobe Dreamweaver, I will be using a tutorial online to guide me through the set-up of the creation of my website. I will learn how to build alongside the procedures and will implement my designated design brief during the guide. I will be screen shotting most of the procedures for reference which will build on my progress in the website. Annotations are also vital.

Sites:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver-cs4-tutorial-1.shtml

http://bestwebdesignz.com/tips/dreamweaver/dreamweaver-cs4-tutorial/

I will try to use my pre-existing knowledge of Dreamweaver from the skills I learnt in Year 9.

Session 22 (August 21st)

By viewing my initial ideas for the layout of my website, I have concluded my idea into a final idea, which I will be using as a guideline for the actual website layout. Colours will be experimented during the design of the website, as it may look different in reality than on the computer. My design consists of a basic sidebar on the left of the website and a bold title at the top. The content will simply be available at the central focus of the website, at the centre. I will be attempting to prevent my website from opening different windows after clicking, for faster viewing speeds and a more convenient way to present it to viewers.

As mentioned, I will be using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 to complete the website, afterwards making a complete html for the site.

The Final Idea is listed below*

Session 21 (July 26th)

Screenshot of Email with Interview 1:

Client Name: Lai Ting Fung

-Graduate in Computer Science

This screenshot shows the online interview through the email system, which is a reply about the specifications of the website I will create and some hints and tips on how to layout them using specific software.

Session 20 (June 13th)

Posted underneath are my design plans for the layout of the website. These are my first ideas and have been looked at by my client. I have asked him to give a few comments on each of the 4 designs for further rendering of the layout in more detail (final design)

*Scans here*

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