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= Topic: Thaipusam Festivals =



=**__PROPOSAL__**=

Project Leader: Sayed Ahmad Zulsyahir Bin Sayed Abdul Rahman
__**Group members:**__
 * 1) Sayed Ahmad Zulsyahir Bin Sayed Abdul Rahman - 1071120019 (Leader)
 * 2) Hafizah Omar Zaki – 1071120152
 * 3) Siti Liyana Mohd Rosely – 1071120148
 * 4) Akmar Fatem Bte Abd Malik – 1051106681
 * 5) Marhana Bt Mazlan – 1071119561
 * 6) Tan Kean Jia – 1071120138

- To educate and develop basic understanding on the celebration besides showing the diversity of celebrations in between the Malaysian society.
 * 1) Objective of the site**:

- In between the age of 22-28 years old
 * 2) Target user's demography**:

- Educational - Informative - Simple
 * 3) Characteristic(s) of the website:**


 * 4)** **Initial design (home web page)

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 * 5) Brief description**:

__What is Thaipusam?__

Thaipusam is a celebration of the day Lord Murugan, or Subramaniam or Kartikeya as he is also known, received the "Vel" or divine spear from his mother, Mariamman also known as Parvati, to kill the feared demon Soorapadman. The celebration involves a procession of people bearing kavadis. People generally make a pledge to offer a kavadi in order to obtain blessings from Murugan. This is especially so when one seeks for the return to health of one's child or loved ones who is sufferring from an incurable disease like cancer or other terminal diseases and seek divine intervention.

__Who celebrated it?__

Thaipusam is celebrated by Hindus in all Tamil living areas like Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles and also in Tamilnadu, India on the full moon day in the Thai month of the Tamil calender, which is in January or February. Hindu devotees in Malaysia today celebrated Thaipusam to mark the birth of Lord Murugan by going to several temples in the country.

__Reasons for celebrating?__

The purpose of the procession is to ferry the "murti" or consecrated statue of Lord Murugan from the mother's temple to the Murugan Temple at Batu Caves where it will remain for the duration of the celebration, which is for 3 days. After that there will be another procession back to the mother's temple. The return journey is not quite as festive as the outward journey.

__Where is it celebrated?__


 * Batu Caves become the focus on hindu community in the yearly Thaipusam festival. It had become a pilgrimage site not only for Malaysia Hindus, but Hindus from other countries.Batu Caves ** is located in Gombak district, 13 kilometer north of Kuala Lumpur. Thaipusam festival is one of major Hindu festival in Penang, the Hindus community will gather at the Nattukottai Chettiar Temple and Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani hilltop temple to celebrate the festival.Thaipusam festival also been celebrate in various temples around Malaysia.

__How is it celebrated?__

Prior to the day of the festival, devotees prepare themselves in the act of soul cleansing where in this period they would perform celibacy and fasting in which they are only allowed to consume sattvik (pure/clean) foods and drinks such as milk, vegetables or coconut consumed only once a day for 44 days. On the day of the festival, the devotees offer their penance through shaving their heads, piercing their skins, offering milk to Lord Murga and by breaking coconut shells as they believe in performing such acts would clear sins committed and that they perform them to seek forgiveness.

- we assume that our target audience knows nothing on this occasion and that the audience is seeking rudimentary knowledge of it -prefer simple explanation on the subject
 * 6) Target's characteristic**

Day 1 discussions on the initial proposal (10th July 2009) Day 2 Discussions on the division of tasks and website input and layout (15th of July 2009)
 * 7) Milestones**


 * 8) Division of tasks..(n labour..=D )**


 * **home web page** (Flash) || **hafizah+hana** ||
 * **history** of Thaipusam || **sayed** ||
 * **how** it is celebrated || **hana** ||
 * **location** of celebration || **liyana** ||
 * **purpose** of celebrating || **kean jia** ||
 * **gallery** || **fatem** ||
 * **contacts** || **hafizah** ||


 * ATTENTION:** All related and necessary information regarding Thaipusam festival should be collected ASAP...before our third meeting next week. Your cooperation is highly appreciated.Thank you =)

This could change within this week, depending on if we have any other ideas but after the weekend i think its safe to stick to the plans agreed ok?

-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Thaipusam** -www.journeymalaysia.com/MCUL_**thaipusam**.htm -allmalaysia.info/msiaknow/festivals/**thaipusam**/ -http://www.malaysiasite.nl/**thaipusameng**.htm
 * 3)Reference**s


 * WEBSITES PAGE DESIGNS:-

__INDEX:__**

P/S: further improvements and adjustment will be done in due time.


 * Studies on the target audience's age characteristics** (22-28 years of age)
 * -Roger Gould, psychologist; in 1975 and 1978, published stages of adult personality (outlined below); his work also considers how people perceive time at different stages; more recent work has been in computer-based brief psychotherapy came out with:
 * Stages of Adult Personality**
 * Age 22 - 28: I’m nobody’s baby, now.** Answers the false assumption that “doing things my parents’ way, with willpower and perseverance, will bring results.”
 * Daniel Levinson; studied men first, and then women; outline of development is based on equilibrium/disequilibrium periods during which a man builds/questions his life structure; the stable and transition periods alternate. He finds that at the age of 22-28. men and women are entering the stage of adulthood

Since the piercing of the body practiced in the celebration of the festival could go to the extent of making viewers uncomfortable, it is important that the audience has an adequate cognitive maturity in understanding the acts of devotees performing their offerings. Therefore we think that at the age of 22-28 years old are the right age and that people under this age category would have much more financial freedom comparing to a younger age group.

FLOWCHART OF THE WEB
From the index page of the site, a user is presented 6 links namely the history,purpose of the celebration,contacts,location,how it is celebrated and gallery link. In which there are sub-links a user would explore into by clicking one of the links as shown above.
 * Explanation on the chart**:


 * GUI DESIGNS**


 * __ Purpose of celebrating thaipusam by [Tan kean jia] __

__**Index.html by [Hafizah and Marhana**__]



__**Contact Us.html by [Hafizah Omar Zaki]**__

__**Travel Agency.html by [Hafizah Omar Zaki]**__


 * __History.html by [Sayed Ahmad Zulsyahir]__**




 * __Location.html by [Siti Liyana Mohd Rosely]__**


 * __Celebration.html [by Marhana Mazlan][[image:Celebration_prtscrn.JPG width="648" height="422" align="left"]] __**

__**Gallery.html[by Akmar Fatem]**__