Timothy Tye: Website as interpretation tool and promotion strategy.

29th May 2009 (Friday) Time : 9.30am
Venue : Penang Heritage Trust

Figure 1: Mr Timothy Tye

We start our session a bit late as we waited for other participant to fill up the hall. A few minutes past and we start our session. Our talk that day would cover about website as interpretation tool and promotion strategy.

The presenter is someone you might know in website. Have you ever heard about travel website called Asia Explorers, Budget Travel Tips and Budget Accommodation Guide? If u does, you will probably know the webmaster. While if you don’t let me tell you.

The person behind the screen is Mr. Timothy Tye . He started to create the website based on the interest of travelling. Then he realised this website really help those who want to seek information to travel. It started from there he expend to create more and more useful website for backpackers.

If you would like to view the list of websites you can always go to http://www.timothytye.com/. Some of the websites are still under construction. From my opinion, those websites are good especially the Penang travel tips.

What is so special about his website?

Let’s say you are about to go to Penang for your vacation this school holiday. However, you did not know anything about that place. You are about going to Penang Hill, but you do not know how to go and what interesting place around to be visit. Some who go by buses need to know local bus route and accommodation provide. Moreover, you are driving, which road to be taken easily. The most important question that play in one head is that where to stay that night?

All the difficulty can be solve just by visiting the Penang Travel Tips. There is all that you need to know. Besides, in the website also have the maps, where can be visited around and attractive picture to be view.

After introduce him self, all the participant need to introduce ourselves and tell our expectation for that day presentation.
We also need to list 5 essence of a good website. Everyone have many things that they think that need to be the essence of a good website. Some of them as being listed below:

1) Interactive
2) Fast loading
3) Easy to navigate
4) Content must be update
5) Basic information and contact form
6) Internal link
7) Good traffic
8) Content up to date
9) Can make Money
10) Good keyword
11) Attractive picture
12) Have external link

Mr Timothy Tye highlighted the same as Pn Nazlina did. The most important criteria to be insert in the webpage is the content. Good content will ensure your page will be most viewed by people. First people seek the content for his or her information then it goes to other things.

Second would be the attractive picture to catch viewer attention.

Third would be internal and external link. This is to help people understand more.

Fourth would be the loading speed. People tend to search for something that is easily being loading. The speed is important as people will move to find other similar website when they lost their passion waiting for the page to be fully viewed.

After awhile, Mr Timothy Tye, asked anyone who has own website to show theirs. As this we can look at each strengthen and weaknesses. Pn Nazlina show 2 of her website and we start to discuss. The crowd start to impress the webpage and keep asking a lot of question.

The time goes real fast as we need to end it up. The organizer suggests if people really interested in learning and understanding these topic, they will find another date to do these workshop.