Wednesday 31 August 2011

Travel Guide

THIVESNI A/P GONASAGARAN 1081100535



WORK IN PROGRESS

DESCRIPTION ON THE INDIVIDUAL  IDEATION OF THE LINK


At my page, there's map& directions on how to get  batu caves... tips on travel guide.

OBJECTIVE OF THE LINK

more to information to tourist on how to get to travel batu caves selangor..
USE OF TOOLS

ABODE DREAMWEAVER

to create my travel page,there's image(map)

&information

ABODE PHOTOSHOP

to crop the print screen of the batu caves from google earth.
 


GUI INDIVIDUAL SITE (SEE BELOW)



FLOWCHART OF INDIVIDUAL SITE (SEE ABOVE)

REFERENCE

http://marniejan.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-batu-caves-of-kuala-lumpur/
http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/batu-caves-kuala-lumpur-selangor-malaysia/
http://www.malaysiasite.nl/batucaveseng.htm 




SCREEN SHOT OF FINAL TRAVEL GUIDE see above


ATTRACTIONS

Attractions of BATUCAVES,SELANGOR 

ANANTHI A/P RAGAVAN 1071117597



WORK IN PROGRESS
 

DESCRIPTION ON THE INDIVIDUAL  IDEATION OF THE LINK

This page is all about attractions places at Batu caves, selangor

2Buttons link to the information page.
The buttons are
FLORA&FAUNA
ROCKCLIMBING

OBJECTIVE OF THE LINK

 

Gives information & some images regarding about the attractions places to visit there for the tourist to see..

GUI OF THE INDIVIDUAL SITE (SEE BELOW)


FLOW CHART OF THE INDIVIDUAL SITE (above)

 USE OF TOOLS
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Use to create layout for the website.

SCREEN SHOT OF LAYOUT DESIGN using PHOTOSHOP
















ADOBE DREAMWEAVER 

To create content for the attractions page and 2 sublinks.
2 buttons in the page are flora&fauna & rock climbing
i also add in images of fauna's that can be found in batu caves.































































REFERENCES

http://marniejan.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-batu-caves-of-kuala-lumpur/
http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/batu-caves-kuala-lumpur-selangor-malaysia/
http://www.malaysiasite.nl/batucaveseng.htm

images for the layout...i took from google search "thaipusam"
lord murugan picture...is the highlight of the layout...to have "thaipusam" feel.















SCREEN SHOT FINAL ATTRACTION PAGE
NATURE/FLORA&FAUNA LINK














SCREEN SHOT FINAL ATTRACTION PAGE
ROCK CLIMBING LINK














Saturday 27 August 2011

Gallery

RUBASHINI A/P GUNASEGARAN  [1081100871]



WORK IN PROGRESS

DESCRIPTION ON THE INDIVIDUAL  IDEATION OF THE LINK


This page consist of all the images taken during the festival season in Batu Caves  and attractions places over there.There are two categories of album in this link which are:-


                                              a)The Festival Season Images
b)The Tourist Attraction Places


OBJECTIVE OF THE LINK


The main idea of the link is to expose the viewers to the images taken over there to give a rough idea how the place looks like and how the events are over there happens.As the saying the first impression is the most  important impression.They always say "Picture speaks more then a Word" therefore we tried to focus on    the images as it speaks more then the words I write on it.Besides that, the link is to attract viewer to visit
 the blog all the time with  images & video.

Pages That I Have Created

HOMEPAGE-The promotional video that I have created which is in the blog as well as in the website
ABOUT US-A brief introduction about our group members.I have included:-

 a) Images of the members
                                                             b)Student Name
                                                             c)Student Id

GALLERY- Images of the two categories mentioned above.Images used in the Gallery are
images taken from my Sony Digital Camera and from Google search engine,keyword "batu caves". The images that are suitable for my website gallery page are saved.


FLASH BANNER-A slide show of two banners edited using photoshop in all the links in the website header using Flash.



PROMOTIONAL VIDEO-A promotional video with images that have been edited from photoshop to giva a slide show of it in the website .The aim is to promote Batu Caves,Selangor.
 


<<A showcase of Hindu deities status and mythological arts in caves>>
Statue

A devote taking 'kavadi' fullfilling his vows to god

Deities Statue

Deities Statue

Deities 'Lord Muruga'

During Thaipusam

During Thaipusam

During Thaipusam




USE OF TOOLS

MOZILLA FIREFOX- TO BROWSE MY FILES


PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

Step 1

editing all the images in photoshop using soft light brush tool
merging the two images

Step 2

importing images to places.placing images in each key frames,and converting the images into graphics&reducing alpha as i did to flash banner.
(fade in & out effect)



FLASH BANNER

Image of the flash banner

The banner is designed using adobe Photoshop CS3 & Macromedia Flash CS3 to create it.


Step 1

Designed two images banner in photoshop.




Two Image combination.These are the images that I used, took it from Google images search engine and my Digital Camera.I have used softlight to blend and merge the images with the peacock.



  
Step 2

Use Macromedia Flash cs3.
Saved the 2 banners & bring it to macromedia flash.
Import the images to library.




Step 3

Drag in the images from the library
Convert it to graphics.

Step 4

Insert keyframes

Step 5

Then right click for motion tween.
Towards the end of the key.reduced the alpha,so that the next banner can be seen.


REFERENCE/TUTORIAL LINK




Layout Design For The Website


Images that been used:


peacock feather
 Step 1


I have used lord' murugan' photo as the background.The reason is to highlight its a batu caves & all about Thaipusam event can be found here in this website.


Step 2


Draw the green rectangle,using rectangle marquee tool in photoshop.Reduce the opacity so that it will give glassy and screen look for the content.
&I overlay with the peacock feather. 



DESIGN OF GUI





FLOW CHART OF THE INDIVIDUAL SITE







 SCREEN SHOT  FOR THE FINAL OUTPUT OF HOMEPAGE






SCREEN SHOT  FOR THE FINAL OUTPUT OF ABOUT US





 SCREEN SHOT  FOR THE FINAL OUTPUT OF GALLERY



PHOTOSHOP: GUI INTERFACE & FLOWCHART

MACROMEDIA FLASH : ALBUM GALLERY

DREAMWEAVER : GENERATE THE SITE USING GUI CUSTOM TEMPLATE.

History of BATUCAVES,SELANGOR

ARVIND A/L SELVARATNAM
1081106726

WORK IN PROGRESS

HISTORY PAGE
Description on the individual ideation of the link
At my page there’s a short history on batu caves,Selangor.I also will provide a image of the cave in the page.

Objective of the link
For the tourist & devotes to have a quick look on the history,& to make them understand in a very simple words.

Design of GUI(see below)

FLASH BANNER/HEADER
All group member use the same banner. The banner contains flash images fading in and out.

NAVIGATION BAR
Links of buttons to all pages. For my part, I am doing the history page.

BODY
There’s place for information and image.

FOOTER
Copyright  by me to show this page was design by me. My name &student ID.

Flowchart of the individual site(see below)
















RESEARCH ON THE CONTENT
I did research on few website for the content & as a leader...i also sugesst this link to my gorup mates
http://marniejan.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-batu-caves-of-kuala-lumpur/
http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/batu-caves-kuala-lumpur-selangor-malaysia/
http://www.malaysiasite.nl/batucaveseng.htm


REFERENCES FOR THE HISTORY PAGE


The image i search in google,using batucaves as the keyword.
content i took from wikipedia.. .Url ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batu_Caves

USE OF TOOLS
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS3

I USE TO CREATE GUI & FLOWCHART

ADOBE DREAMWEAVER

USED TO CREATE BUTTONS & PLACE THE BACKGROUND IMAGE IN THE DREAMWEAVER

SCREEN SHOT OF FINAL OUTPUT(see below)



Work in progress..

Work in progress for the assigned task..










BUTTONS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL SITE

Friday 1 July 2011

Thaipusam Festival

The Silver Temple Chariot

Devotee carrying Kavadi

Devotee carrying Kavadi


Devotees pierce their bodies to show gratitude to Lord Muruga

Devotee holds a Vel and walks up the stairs

Colourful Kavadi

Parents carry their baby by using sugar cane sticks and a cloth to show gratitude to Lord Muruga



Every year, on Thaipusam, as many as 800,000 devotees and other visitors may throng the caves. As a form of penance or sacrifice, many of them carry kavadis (literally, "burden," such as a pitcher or jug). These are large, brightly decorated frameworks, usually combined with various metal hooks and skewers which are used to pierce the skin, cheeks and tongue.By doing this penance they expect some favours from their Gods.The festival is held in the tenth month of the Hindu calendar (mostly the end of January). 

The procession starts on the evening before the  Thaipusam festival at the Sri Mariamman Temple in the town centre of Kuala Lumpur.
By doing penance they want to extort some favours from the Gods.




Kavadis

Kavadis


The kavadis is placed on the shoulders of the devotee. The kavadis represents a miniature shrine.
Women carry a silver jug full of milk on their heads, some are pierced through their cheeks and tongues and others not.
Chains are dropped from the central body of the kavadis and hooked onto the flesh of the bearer. The length of the spears had to be limited to a metre in consideration for other devotees.  Others hook limes, oranges or coconuts onto their bodies.
They are always accompanied by an entourage of relatives and friends to make them enthusiastic with dance parades, songs, musicians playing the drums and the flutes.
As they arrive at the shrine at the Batu Caves, the Swami removes the hooks, spears etc. The vow is finally fulfilled.
Thaipusam is celebrated at Peninsular of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur and on Penang
The procession on Penang starts on the eve before the Thaipusam festival at  the Chettiar Temple in Penang Street.


When you don't visit the Batu Caves at Thaipusum, they are still very beautiful.
Every day there is a little celebration of a group of Hindus in the Batu Caves. Every time it's an imposing event, although there's no self torture.
Temple Cave or Cathedral Cave is he best known and biggest of the caves.
It's visited by many devotees.
The ceiling is 100 m above the ground and this huge chamber is lighted by daylight from several holes in the ceiling
.
At the end of the caves you can see the bright sky, when you look above you.
If you go up the stairs, you can meet a lot of long tailed-macaque monkeys and if you have peanuts with you, they'll climb to you as I won't consider recommending. You might fall though.
You can take photo's of them, carrying their babies for the peanuts. There are locals in the entrance,  who will approach you to buy peanuts.

Kavadis

Standing at 42.7 m (140 ft) high, the world's tallest statue of Murugan, a Hindu deity, is located outside Batu Caves.

Kavadis

A devotee carrying a Kavadi