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:: Design Statement

Design Statement

The client requested the following;

For the site to promote Melaka to the world and entice visitors to visit Melaka.

To provide a way to help bring Malaccans together and also keep in touch with new happenings.

Incorporating an element of e-commerce to the site for Engmepho. Professional looking front page to impress visitors on clicking to www.tourism-melaka.com (with a flash display visual).

Aim: the aim of the site is to bring Melaka to the world and entice people to go to Melaka.

Audience: Internet users of all ages and types. Mainly English spoken people whom are between the ages of 25 to 50 years old. It is assumed that these people have basic computer knowledge and internet experience.

Primary message to be conveyed: that Melaka is a great place to visit.

Technical and functional requirements: The site needs to be user friendly;

• Easy to understand layout
• Easily identifiable look
• Ability for users to know where exactly they are on the site and what other options they have navigation wise.
• Depth in content and features (i.e. so that people are enticed to look further within the site for more information and maintain interest)
• Provide options for the users to book tours, go shopping online etc
• Quick to upload
• W3C Compliant
• Nice visual style and design
• Visual flash display
• Provide access to all content from original site

To be implemented in the future: Option for Melaka United with a forum. news updates etc.

Content: www.tourism-melaka.com is a site that is currently running on the internet. All of its content will be re-organized into the following sections;

• History
• Sites/Cultures/Events
• Tastes
• Shopping
• Health Tourism
• Contacts
• Advertising (ie specific to the pages topic)

Interface design:

Introduction Screen

This screen will be the first screen to load with a flash introduction which is aimed at enticing users to enter the site. It will also provide a way for users to choose if they wish to enter the Tourism Melaka part or Melaka United and act as a way of advertising the site.

Main - Tourism Melaka

The main page for Tourism Melaka will be a way for new users to become familiar with the basics of the site (ie the different topics the site is divided into). This is achieved through the layout which consists of the header plus menu and a larger version of the graphics which will be used to represent the topics. This page will
generally explain the site thus allowing people to learn how it is structured. The menu bar will then be for people familiar with it as they can click directly to sections they might want to see.

Main Sections

The layout of the site will be the same for each topic. It will consist of the top section which has the header Tourism Melaka logo, name and contact details with a corresponding footer at the bottom of the page with my details (as per requirements). The left column will be a table of contents, unique for each of the main sections of the website.

Beneath the header will be a flash menu for the main topics which will take the user to specific sections within the topic (an alternate text menu for W3C purposes will be included at the left side of each page).

Small images which will represent each topic will be used as direct links to each section will reside below the menu. These will have alternate tags for identification (W3C).

The main part of the page will be divided into three sections;

Left hand column: Each topic will have a menu specific to that section.

Right hand column: Will have advertisements (e-commerce based). (not yet Implemented)

Main middle section: Will then have text and images on the topic with links to more specific sections where specified.

Images, text etc has been taken from the www.tourism-melaka.com website or otherwise provided by the site owner, Kang Tsi Wong twkang@emp.com.my.