USING BI-LANGUAGE FOR MUSEUM WEBSITE

Museum is a place or institution which collects, organizes, displays, protects and preserves the national heritage, promotes the history and culture as well as delivers knowledge to public. Many museums in Malaysia has developed website which some museum already have English version as well as Malay version. However some museums do not even has their own website. Multiple language website for museum is becoming important since it has a lot of benefit such as support learning context for society since museum provide knowledge so website for museum will be as medium for people to get general information such as working hour, activities, location and so on and the website also provide information which considered as a main purpose that people want to visit museum, it is the information about galleries and collection. Apart from that, using multiple language in website increases trust of visitor, being as a base for accessing information by wider group of visitor and so on. In developing website for this project, joomla version 2.5 is chosen as a tool and story board is used as a place for design layout of website. The project aims to develop bi-language include English and Malay version for museum geologi muzium located in Ipoh, Perak state. This project also aims to study the effective of having bi or multiple languages for museum‟s website.