Meeting Log

Location : MMU Library Foyer
Time : 3.00pm
Date : August 15th, 2011
Attendance : All present


Highlights:

• Discuss and finalize our GUI for our website
• To standardize our individual links and its objective
• Decision on Flash theme for website
• Discuss on Theme for Flash submission (Group Work) for this Friday (Aug 19th)
• Discuss each other progress and solve any problem arise (justification, clarification etc)
• Distribute work for interface and finalize our buttons

About Kedah

Kedah darul aman mean kedah, Abode of Peace. True to her name, Kedah is a land of peace and tranquility. It is also the 'Rice Bowl of Malaysia' simply because Kedah is the largest producer of rice in Malaysia.

Kedah is located in the northern part of peninsular Malaysia. Kedah is in the northwest corner of the Peninsular Malaysia, and is bounded by Perlis on the north, by the Straits of Malacca on the west, and by Penang and Perak in the south. It's about 45 km south of the Thai border and 100 km north of Penang. It is the last main city you reach if you go via the west coast to Thailand. Kedah is the 8th largest state by land area and 8th most populated state in Malaysia, with a total land area of 9,500 km2 (3,700 sq mi), and a population of 1,890,098.

The Pedu Lake is the largest man-made lake in the state.

The landscape of Kedah is dominated by seemingly never ending paddy fields. Virtually, two third of the state is still covered by forests with some are opened to the public as forest recreational parks. Undulating hills at the forest edge are covered with rubber, oil palm, and fruit plantations. Kedah offers a mix of kampongs, fishing villages, small urban centres and many nature parks.

Alor Setar is the capital, the administration and cultural center of the northern state of Kedah. "Alor" or more correctly, "alur" is Malay for a groove, furrow or main stream of a channel. In Tamil "alur" means drain. "Star"  or "setar" is a plant with small, sour fruit (Bouea macrophylla) also known as either "kundang" or "remia" in Malay. The uniqueness of these fruits is that when you split the seed, each part is purple in color.

Kedah has a relatively heterogeneous populace constituted by the three major ethnic groups; the Malays, Chinese and Indians, similar to most of the other Malaysian states. There are 1,336,352 Malays (who make up about 75.5% of the state's population), 252,987 Chinese (or 14.2%), 122,911 Indians (or 6.9%), 35,293 non-citizens (or 1.9%) and 27,532 people from other ethnic groups (or 1.5%) in the state.

Flowchart of the Website

This are the flowchart for the individual website

The description for every links and sub-links have been stated in Ideation of Website.

Ideation of the Website

Buttons and Links


Home
If the user wishes to return to the homepage, this link button will lead the user back to the homepage/main page. 


About
This link button will provide the user about Kedah's demographic and geographic factor.


Contact
We will put up our information in this particular section for the user to contact us if they need any further details and clarification.


Bursts of Flavors
This button link will have 4 different sub links which will be categorized as Main Dishes, Cakes&Desserts, Recipes and Famous Restaurants. All this 4 sub-links will have a specific information regarding to their own category.

Basically, this is our basic plan for the layout of the website. If there is any changes, we will inform in this blog.

Initial Proposal

Group Name

Interloc Remake

Group Leader

Nurul Syazmin Hamdan  1081104673

Group Members

Nusaibah Jazuli  1091105731

Ali Mahdi Khalil  1071117118

Objective

To promote the famous and delicious food in Kedah and attract the tourists from all over the world, to visit Malaysia. Our team is focusing on the topic about the food in Kedah that can attract local and international tourists to visit Kedah. We do like to discover and dig more about the delicacies and cuisines originated from Kedah that will give tourists a whole new experience and bust of flavors regarding to the delicacies and cuisines. In order to achieve the objective, tasks have been distributed to every member in the group so that we can obtain as much information as needed for this project.

As our main purpose is to promote and introduce the famous food in Kedah, we do focus on variety types of delicious and tasty food which originated from multi-racial society and the food are well-known in the state.

Individual Task

As we know that, Malaysia is a multicultural country, so, there are many different races food that can attract tourists to visit and taste those special and delicious food. To get the information of variety types of food in Kedah, we had discussed and decided to divide our tasks as shown below:

Nurul Syazmin Hamdan                 -  Main Dishes

Nusaibah Jazuli                           -  Cakes/Dessert & Recipes

Ali Mahdi Khalil                           -  Famous Restaurants 

Each of us are responsible to find the details and information originated from Kedah regarding to the sub-topic chosen. As for our website, every one of us will be responsible for the development of the website and will contribute ideas and plans for the website.

Initial Design for the Webpage

To guarantee the success of our website, we will put our effort in designing our webpage layout. The success of every website lies in the interface. The easier the navigation, the more the users will explore. Colors and images are one of the important factor to determine the make or break elements in the website. We will make sure our website does not look plain, but at the same not too heavy with images; and at the same time we will make sure that the colors is not eyesore to the users.

Demographics of the end-users/Target Audience Profile

The origin of our targeted users is one of the demographic characteristics that we could observe and suitable to apply in this topic. Actually, the end-users that we targeted can be from any country in the world, as well as the locals.The second characteristic that we are focusing is age. We are targeting users that are from 20-50 years old, as people at this range of age are well known for having a job and stable income. Furthermore, people from this age like to explore and try new things. So, we are trying our best to tackle the tourists in this range of age.We are here to do our best to provide the information needed as much as we could. 

In conclusion, we will use our website as a medium to spread out the knowledge we have and exchange information, resulted from our data mining, and we will try to be as straightforward as we could.

Interloc Remake

First and foremost, our team member would like to say gazillionth of sorry regarding to our delay in updating the blog. This happens due to our leader, Shaffri Sharuddin (1061107742), drop the subject and inform us at the very last minute. We were quite disappointed with his ignorance, but life must go on, and so do the assignment. We are aware how far we're behind the schedule, but we'll try our best to march up with the deadline. We decided to stick with the initial proposal, and we will expand our idea from there.

Our finalized team member are :

Nurul Syazmin Hamdan        1081104673

Nusaibah Jazuli                  1091105731

Ali Mahdi Khalil                  1071117118