Thoughts & Notes On eCommerce for Hotels

My name is Joe Nguyen. I was the Director of Global eCommerce for Millennium & Copthorne Hotels since 2006, based in Singapore. I had been in this field for a few years now; before M & C, I worked at Open World for over 4 years. Open World built websites for many, many hotels around the world and closed down in March 2007! Before that, I was at Interactive Audience Measure Asia (iamasia.com) which closed in October 2001. I am now at Omniture.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Shockwave Flash & Monitor Resolutions for New Website

From a discussion on wiwih.com:

For what it's worth, here are some stats for Flash Plugin penetration and also monitor resolution for visitors to millenniumhotels.com in the first 7 months of 2007.

Shockwave Flash Penetration (98.5% for our visitors!)

(Sorry, but I don't yet have the breakdown of Flash by versions.)

Screen Resolution (over 85% of our visitors have resolutions wider than 800 pixels)

The above are why our newly launched site caters for 1024 width and uses more Flash. We also use javascript to supplement the flash animation, but that's mostly only on the homepage. Lots more SEO work to follow...

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