WorldExplorer
Why WorldExplorer?
WorldExplorer's concept of providing educational materials for the countries' location, demographics, national foods, and national holidays and festivals is inspired by a Youtube video that pushes to me via algorithms few years ago. The content itself is simple, but able to retain in my minds as how divided the society of understand for any countries.
In my opinion, understanding the countries nearby us as important as familiar with our neightbour in the neightbourhood. Mostly will be friendly, but some remains hostile. We need to learn their behaviour, culture, and lifestyle in order to give respect and avoid unintentional conflicts.
Hence, the objectives of WorldExplorer is to provide an interactive way to learn countries, also allowing high engagement by integrating multimedia elements.
Developer's Background
The project was developed by single developer only, from University Utara Malaysia. Quah Wei Xiang, 298464, SMMTC, Multimedia course, A251/A252 section of Academic Project. The developer has no unique traits or anything, since he rarely socialise and likes to "jail" himself up in his comfy dormitory.
(My Github profile, it is clickable. I have nothing to show aside that because I don't selfie.)
Student's Ethical Declaration of Media and AI Usage
In this section, I will talk how I obtained, accessed and used them, from various tools, websites, and etc. There are many sources that I refer to, I may and unintentionally left some behinds. I'll try my best to cover every single sources that I used here.
Websites
Kigen's Color Generator - Used for generating colour palette
w3schools - Tutorial and manual book of how to use elements correctly
Google - My primary place for asking "How to xxx in html/css/js"
AI and Tools
ChatGPT - Used for assisting in CSS layout issues, website design, and content writing
Google Gemini - Used for assisting in CSS layout issues, streamlines coding, content writing, and foreign letters inserting
※ All content are verified manually for facts-checking, this is to avoid AI hallucinating
Git - A feature in VS Code where it can save your progression and optimise the workflow
Multimedia Element
Free Vector Maps - Source of high quality country map's outlines
Wikipedia - Source of most images in Country Profile
※ And many other websites from foodblog, government websites, history pages, social media (X, Facebook, Pinterest) for providing useful image presentations
Youtube - Source of videos used
Flaticon - Source of high quality web icons