EIR Practical 6 - Evaluation of Internet Resources 2&3
I wish to visit Sydney in Australia for a holiday. I know that Sydney is a vibrant cities just like Singapore with beautiful tourist attraction such as the harbor bridge, Sydney Tower and opera house. I will also like to visit the Sydney Wildlife World to look at the Koala, kangaroo and other animals. Sydney Aquarium it is one of the largest and the most spectacular aquariums in the world! Gold Coast have clean sea water, sand and nice temperature during December is around 20 - 27 °C. Dreamworld theme park have more variety of rides as compare to Singapore
Click on the Picture to Zoom+ in for better view.
Secondlife - Walking in the middle of Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Haha don't even have a single car I can experience walking through the bridge
Secondlife - Sydney Harbour Bridge
I can only take screenshot of half of the bridge due to graphic problem. If I move further away by another 30 meters another part of the bridge will disappear. This is why I dun like Secondlife I can't enjoy the whole scenery of the surrounding.
Sydney Harbour Bridge at night
The scenery is much more beautiful as compared to Secondlife. There are lots of lighting at night which make the city looks more energetic and vigorous
SecondLife - Opera House
Similar to the real one but the graphic is terrible as compare to the real one
SecondLife - Opera house close view
Opera house during the afternoon
Opera house during the night
Cites in Australia seem to look nicer during the night
Opera House and Harbour Bridge during the night
Perfect combination
I went to this website to look for more information about Australia
Consumer: http://www.australia.com/
Corporate: http://www.tourism.australia.com/
The consumer website is for consumer. It provides a lot of information, pictures about Australia. For corporate it provide information about the company and data of how well is the tourism industry doing.
Several criteria used to evaluate a website
- Coverage
- Currency
- Usability
- Purpose
- Presentation and Arrangement
- Accessibility
- Authority
- Accuracy
It can be make into acronym E.g. "CCUPPAAA"
I will start to evaluate the website using all the 8 criteria
Coverage
I like this website it cover a wide range of information about Australia. Wide coverage means that I do not need to visit other website to look for other information that is not in the website.
- Travel Planner - This feature will recommend people to visit places that suit their needs not only that they even provide information about where to stay, recommend travel agent
- Things To Do - It provides information about what to do in each city. How many days to stay in each city and how to travel to those destination
- News & Events
- Image of Australia
- Videos of Australia
- And many more
Currency
The information is of course up to date and well-maintained. It can be proven by the News & Events section. There are hardly any event and news for them to post in their website. Once there is news or events that is related to tourism they will post it up within few hours.
E.g. the recent Queensland Flood was posted a few hours later after the flood...now the webpage is still updating the information about the flood.
Usability
- User friendly
- Page complete loading in lesser than 8 second (10Mbps)
- Easy to navigate around
- Have search facility
- Site Map
- No broken links or missing pages
- No bugs and error
Purpose
Yes their aims is all written in the mission section
- To influence people to travel to Australia, including for events
- To influence people travelling to Australia to also travel throughout Australia
- To influence Australians to travel throughout Australia, including for events
- To help foster a sustainable tourism industry in Australia
- To help increase the economic benefits to Australia from tourism
Personally I feel that the website is providing people with information about Australia. This website also acts as a guide on where to go, how to travel around Australia and also recommend where to go.
Presentation and Arrangement
Flash was used at the home page and it has a lot of pictures in every web page. Alignment, font and size are consistent in every web page. Contrast colours which was caring for our eyes. Can therefore, words can be read in the web page.
Accessibility
This website is accessible for everyone who have internet that visit that webpage. Login is not required to view their content except for their Image Library. Login is required to gain full access to the image library.
Authority
This website is managed by Australian Government agency
Accuracy
The information provided by tourism Australia regarding tourism are mostly true. They are the ones that have most information and experience about Australia tourism. They also have the 1st hand information about Australia tourism as compare to other organisation. If they have provided the wrong information other organisation will also be wrong.
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