Question

Please use the search engine (Such as google and baidu) to visit four different websites about hotels or scenic spots, describe the features of these sites and multimedia elements.

What kind of multimedia presentation does the site take? Video? Flash? 3D animation or only images?

Please use the search engine (Such as google and baidu) to visit four different websites about hotels or scenic spots, describe the features of these sites and multimedia elements.

What kind of multimedia presentation does the site take? Video? Flash? 3D animation or only images?

Analyze their advantages and disadvantages.

Discussing whether the multimedia application is appropriate, and how to add some additional media content to improve this site. Give some advices.

Answer 1

Hi,

I try to visit as much as possible many websites on thru google search engine and few thru baidu.Below are few websites and their main features..we cant describe all the features of any website but few more important features of front panel which i can describe below.

Features :

1. Search: there must be robust search feature in the site so user can search contents based on his/her interest with location , price, cites etc.

2. Chat or live chat: it would be a great interactive way to user who can not talk to the customer representatives on phone so for such users there must be chat app to interact and to get information about Hotels and other customer services

3. There must be interactive Contact us page where user can call to customer representative on once click mainly when user is referring website by mobile device.

4. Listing of Hotels: There must be a page where users can see listing of Hotels but with interactive multimedia contents. You can add albums of Hotel and video as well.there should be proper description about the hotel, images and videos etc.

5. Google MAP integration should be there at your website to locate the location of the hotel easily.

6. Always show details page of any hotel with all the hotel description including photo gallery of hotel images, videos , and amenities in a visual way to attract users towards the hotels with prices and discounts.

7. Special packages and Deals: There should be a separate page for the special deals, packages to the users..because user is always looking for special packages and discount deals.so its very important feature of any website.

8. There should be a testimonial and reviews module in your site to get users feedback.it will help to improve your and you partner services.

9. There should be a blog section at your site where user can read about hotels and places with details.

10. website must be user friendly and mobile responsive so user can access it by any kind of devices like desktop, Mobile, MAC, tablets etc.

11. There can be feature like Credits which is very popular features nowadays.if user will be book any hotel from your site then you will give him few credits which user can redeem in his next hotel booking. with this user can save few bucks. It will attract users.

12. there should be robust support system

13. There can be a good feature for Business people..you can create hotel packages to the small, medium and large business with special discount to single employee or groups.

14. Off course it will require a strong admin panel to manage all the stuffs.

Q. Why multimedia elements are important and appropriate for any website/application in current era and How to add multimedia contents at your site.

Multimedia contents are very crucial for any website or application. Multimedia contents are completely differing from text or written contents. few popular multimedia contents are:

1. Images

2. Graphics

3. Videos

4.Interective contents.

1.Images: As we see now a days every page or website has images for the better look and feel of the website. Suppose if there are only text contents available at your website then you cant imagine attractive , eye catchy website without images. User will be bored because of text contents but if there will be images then it will represent whole idea of the website.you can decorate your website with different kind of images. you can add different color and different interest as per your need to attract user. so images are very important for the websites look and feel.So you should add images to every page of your website to attract user and keep them interested and engaged.

2. Graphics: Graphical information is always better then text information which keeps user interested and engaged at the website. you can provide information thru graphics to the user like charts, 2d images, graph, illustrated images, and by animated graphics.

Graphics are typically illustrated images that can be used anywhere on your site to make your site more users friendly and graphically boost.

3. Videos: Suppose you are running a Hotel management website and you want to inform user about few good places with offers. so what would be the best way to tell the users about places and importance which create interest in any user?.. off course it is video.

Videos are also a great way to decrease bounce rate on your site's pages, and increase time-on-page, along with user engagement and interaction.

By video you can provide information about your products and services in visually.

4. Interactive Contents: Interactive contents refer to anything’s by which user can interact with like suppose there is any chat application by which user can interact with your customer service provider or by other customers. Also suppose you want to launch a survey app at your site and provide a way to user to interact with you by surveys..such kind of interactive app would allow users to be part of your website.

So multimedia contents are very important because:

-> Suppose there is only text content on your website and those text content and intimidate user and user will lose the interest at your site.you will lose huge users base if there are lack of multimedia contents. Multimedia contents will allow user to understand product and services visually instead reading whole page of text contents. Study says text content does not attract user but yes multimedia contents like images, videos etc attract user to engage with your site.

-> Multimedia site will allow to be up in search engine rank if user will engage with your websites.so as business, search engine rank is most important in search engine.

-> if you want users to be there at your website for long period then there must be multimedia contents. If there will be text content then user will get bored in few mins and he will not spend his time at your website..less bouncing rate is always better and it will be only if user will be at your site for long time like youtube.

Q. What kind of multimedia presentation does the site take? Video? Flash? 3D animation or only images

The best multimedia contents are images, videos, audios and animated images but as per my experience try to ignore flash contents at your websites. reason:

1.Flash contents always required flash plugins to run flash multimedia contents.

2. Flash contents can slow your website due to heaviness or may be users internet speed is very slow the it could crash browser.

3. Flash content does not support search engine optimization. Search engine cant index the flash content of the website and result no indexing and no search engine ranking.

But there are many good javascript libraries available which can be alternative of flash like jquery, angular, react etc.

I tried to explain your question in a best way but still if you have any question then comment in comment box.

Thanks