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

Session 17 (24th April)

Back to the music of the videos I may produce, I think it will be best to put traditional chinese music, which will bring the tourists a warm welcoming of Hong Kong. As from before, the website has to be user friendly and must link to existing websites for further reference of tourists.

This may be the official website of the HK tourism board (existing website). It contains a very in depth look into every aspect of Hong Kong, such as how to get around the city (transport) and tourism attractions.

For the project, I have also found a client from the HK tourism board, which will help me on the research for my website. He will help me improve my thoughts of how to create the website in a better way. Instead of interviewing and recording the conversation, since my client has emailed me that he cannot make it because of a busy schedule, so we will keep in contact using email services. I will then transfer the text he writes into the blog. It may also be easier to screenshot the email.

Session 16 (16th April)

3.2 Proposed product or service: The website I will create must not mislead people to the wrong tabs, and shall not confuse anybody. It needs to successfully lead people to where they want to read their information.

Additionally in order to give the people accurate information, I should frequently update the website for information such as weather, currency exchange prices etc. In other cases, I can also link the website to the HK observatory or to a program that updates information for tourists.

To include videos in my website to show tourists, I need to input things such as appropriate music and pictures, which must be taken by myself. This information should be appropriate to HK and tourists. To get this video on my website, I should attach a link there which goes to another website containing the video, or compress the video to a decent size and attach it to a tab in the website. The music should be soothing for tourists to listen to and should not include any lyrics. This will disturb tourists as they watch the video. It should also not include genre music such as rock, pop, metal etc.