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Dek-D.com is a Thai-language youth-oriented website, featuring a large online community and education-related content. It was launched on 31 December 1999 by four students from Suankularb Wittayalai School, and since 2005 has been operated by Bangkok-based Dek-D Interactive Co., Ltd. It is one of the most visited Thailand-based websites and has been ranked among the top five by web traffic analyzer Truehits since 2008.

Dek-D.com's main features include community discussion forums; education-related original and curated content, especially related to university admissions; and a writer's section which serves as a web fiction publishing platform. Many web novels first published on the website have been taken up by publishers and adapted into television series. The site has about ten million monthly visitors, as of 2022.

History

Dek-D.com is a Thai teenager website that was founded in 1999 by four fifth-grade students from Suankularb Wittayalai School. When the creators of Dek-D.com were young, they usually used a computer in their daily life. Then one day, they came up with the idea of making their website and hoped for it to become a community for students from different schools. So, when they studied secondary 4, they tried to design the interface of the website, and the graphic or theme to use with their website by finding information and learning about how to make a website from the beginning from the internet and some search engine like Yahoo. Before making Dek-D.com, many teenagers, especially secondary 4 to 6 students talked about attending university, and they also talked about entertainment stuff, love, and foretelling. Thus, the creator decided to make a website about how to attend the university, a university’s news, and create a community to share the knowledge with other people who attend this website to find the university’s news, because there are a lot of Thai community websites. Still, none of them focus on student and university stuff. In the beginning, this website's name was not Dek-D, for example, Generation X, Millennium, Thaichildren, Thaiteen, and Teenager, but in the end, they chose the name “Dek-D” to represent that this website is a Thai website, and it is for Thai students or teenagers. In the earliest stage, Dek-D.com lets people post their questions and wait for other people to answer on the website according to the objective of this website is to be a community for teenagers from different schools in Thailand to talk and share their stories, experience, and also educational content. Now, this website has been registered and operates under the name of Dek-D Interactive Co., Ltd.

Interface

Dek-D.com website operates in the Thai language which is the one and only language on this website. Orange and white have been chosen to be the main theme color of Dek-D.com, this theme has been used and displayed on every page of the website such as the main page up to the page of each topic. On the top of the main page, there is a topic bar with several topics included, those topics represent all the main contents of this website. For some topics that are included with sub-topics, those sub-topics will show when the mouse cursor is pointing at that topic on the topic bar. Under the topic bar, there are several sections of the content displayed on this website. The topmost section is the top trending content of the website. After that, there are the recommended articles from Dek-D.com. The next section is the updated content section which includes a thread about TCAS, teen stories, and user's thread. In the section of each thread, there is a trending thread and a recent thread on each topic. Apart from those sections, there are some news and articles about a general topic, and also the details of some activities and fairs. There are some topic tags on the right side of the main page, those tags can be used to link the user to some contents that are not shown on the main page. On the page of each thread posted, other users can interact with that thread by writing their comments.

Content

From the website interface, there are several topics and contents on Dek-D.com, and those contents can be reached by clicking the topic of the content that the user is interested in on the topic bar. This section describes the contents of each topic as shown below.

User's thread

This topic contains threads that the users have posted on Dek-D.com. The topic of those threads can be about anything up to the user, for example, news, articles, sharing personal experience, asking questions, etc. The distinctive point of the user's thread topic is that all users can freely post their thread about any topic to share, ask, or talk about anything they want, and other users can do the same thing and interact with those threads by writing their comments.

Novel

This topic contains a lot of novels that you can read at no charge. Those novels have been classified into several categories according to the content of each novel, so the users can easily find and read their interesting novels by searching that novel from its category. On the top of this page, there are two sections which are recommended novels and novel reviews. All users can register to this website and be a member of this website to write and publish their novels on this website for free. All novels on this website are written in Thai as this is a Thai website.

Quiz

There are a lot of quizzes with different categories that users can do on this page of website, for example, the quiz about fortune telling, love, entertainment, movie, game, pet, general knowledge, education, etc. Those quizzes have been classified by their categories. Users can create their own quizzes and publish them to the public so that other users can also do your quiz.

TCAS

TCAS page contains articles and news about admission to a university in Thailand. This topic helps students in many schools in Thailand by sharing important information about university admission. This page has a special feature that is called "TCAS Alert" that displays a notification-like window about the most recent TCAS articles and news that students should know as soon as possible.

Activity and camp

This page contains articles about the activities and camps for students. The content of this page mostly focuses on educational activities and camps, for example, an open house fair, job training, or the camp that is organized by the university, but there are also non-educational activities too such as reforestation activity, or TikTok challenge. There is a special feature for this page which is the calendar that shows the schedule of the events that will happen soon.

Study thread

There are three sections included on this page which are school report, open book, and easy science. The school report is about schools' news, the competition for students, etc. For open books, this section contains articles that mostly suggest interesting stuff about study life that can benefit students. About easy science, this section contains basic scientific articles that happen in our daily life, so the users can easily understand and enjoy these facts.

Study abroad

On this page, there are news, articles, and also threads about studying abroad. It contains a lot of information that can help or guide students who are interested in studying abroad. It also contains articles about exchange students and scholarship for students.

NUGIRL

NUGIRL is the page that mostly contains articles for girls. There are several sections of content categorized by the topics of the content which are fashion, NUGIRL guru, beauty, health, relationship, lifestyle, and NUGIRL special.

Teen life

This page contains articles and threads about teen life especially love, sex, and life problems. There are a few sections of content categorized by topics which are sex education, love & learn, do & don't, and inter's sex. The first two sections contain six recent articles and ten recent threads according to their topic. And for the last two sections, it contains only six recent articles.

Pre-test

This page is used to register for the TCAS Dek-D's pre-admission test. This test has been organized by Dek-D for students who want to prepare themselves before doing the real admission exams. Students can find out more information about this pre-admission test from reviews and articles on this website page.

Dek-D event

This topic does not have its own page but there are two sub-topic pages which are TCAS fair and Art & Fandom fair. These two sub-pages contain information about those two fairs which were organized by Dek-D.

Online tutoring

This page is for selling courses about TCAS. There are some articles, reviews, and also Q & A about these courses.

App

This page can link users to the platform for downloading the apps which were launched by Dek-D. It lists some important features of each app and shows some images of each app. Those three apps are Dek-D TCAS, Dek-D novel, and Dek-D writer.

Product

This page is the store page for selling Dek-D's products such as a book about TCAS and the experiences of each job, and stationaries.

Userbase

In 2022, users of Dek-D.com consists of 58.70% women and 41.30% men. The majority of visitors are 36.68% of 25 to 34 years old people followed by 31.79% of 18 to 24 years old people who use desktop computers. As mentioned in the history section, Dek-D.com was originally made for students to talk and share their educational content, but now the main users of Dek-D.com are 25 to 34 years old people who are not a student. The explanation for that is that the group of users now is the same as the group of users in about the last ten years who were students. Key information about the browsing preferences of visitors to Dek-D.com is revealed by user interests. Most of the users of Dek-D.com are drawn to animation and comics & news under the Arts & Entertainment category which caused Dek-D.com to be the 1st place in this category of website ranking in Thailand. News is the top tag that has been searched by the users. In October 2022, Thailand was the top country that accessed Dek-D.com on desktop with a percentage of 97.77. Other countries such as the United States, Japan, etc. accessed Dek-D.com with less than 1 percent each. The average totality of users who visited Dek-D.com from August to October 2022 is 10 million accessed by desktop and mobile. The average visit duration is about 24.23 minutes and the average page per visit is 10.42 pages. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are the social networks that Dek-D.com receives the most accessible from the desktop. Instagram user engagement could lead to the discovery of new prospects. Compared to all other websites in the world in October 2022, Dek-D.com got 4,282nd place in the global ranking, but it got 39th place in the country website ranking in Thailand. As the competitor websites of Dek-D.com, siamzone.com is the website with the highest similarity score to Dek-D.com but it's got 1569th place in the category ranking in Thailand which is so far from Dek-D.com. Although readawrite.com and tunwalai.com have lower similarity scores compared to siamzone.com they got 24th and 272nd place in the same category ranking as Dek-D.com which is in the 1st place. Compared to the other well-known website in Thailand which is pantip.com, pantip.com got a higher place in global ranking at 1203rd place and higher visits which is 52.3 million, but it got a lower average visit duration which is 4.33 minutes and average pages per visit of 2.79 pages.

Impact

There is a community for those who want to write and share novels on Dek-d.com. Because it costs a lot of money to print a novel book, in the past, a person who wanted to sell it would do it with assurance. Dek-novel's page on the internet is free to use, allowing novelists to test their writing talents without spending any money, and website visitors to read the novel without paying anything. Dek-D.com believes that Thai people are just as skilled as individuals in other international countries. The novelist and readers like Dek-d.com because they have a perspective that has allowed it to develop and consistently rank as the top website for teenagers for ten years. The largest community in Thailand nowadays is made up of authors and readers. At the end of 2018, there were a record number of 960,000 books, 150,000 authors, and 60,000,000 followers.

People who are interested in or who wish to create a website might get inspiration at Dek-d.com. Dek-d.com didn't start making money from their website until after their first year of operation when some people contacted them about advertising and it became an experience teaching people that if you want to do business, try to find an example before someone and others will dare to follow. Currently, there are many websites in Thailand, some of which were inspired by Dek-d.com and others which were created as a result of the inspiration for other businesses to launch their websites.

Many individuals visit Dek-d.com in order to read or find out about admissions information and university news. It used to be quite difficult for students to enroll in a university because some don't disclose their admissions requirements on their websites or other online platforms; rather, if they wanted to know, they would have to visit the institution in person. Exam days at some universities coincide with those at other universities. Dek-d.com gathers the university's selection criteria and disseminates them to people who wish to enroll there via the Dek-d website. Most people who wish to go to college lack knowledge about how to attend university and prepare themselves in a way that will improve their chances of admission. Some teenagers are interested in international universities and the news that they publish. The many faculties of universities in Thailand host camps and other events. To find their favorite instructor, people might participate in a variety of events. Dek-d.com disseminates information about faculty and helps individuals become familiar with faculties besides those of engineering and medical. Dek-d.com offers a course for learning using videos that users may access from any location and other businesses that deal with studying, for instance, talk shows about how to prepare for college. Before the official test, Dek-D.com has prepared a test for themselves that receives a score for admission to the university.

Feedback

1. In History, it is mentioned that the users are students but in the User Base section, the visitors are between 25-34 years. It is not the same age group. Can you elaborate more about this why the major users have changed. Also, you mentioned about the proportion of male and female, but the data is for which year.
2. Please check your writing in grammarly.
3. Your references are from Dek-D source only. Please find more reliable sources.

External links

• Dek-D.com website, at www.dek-d.com
• Pantip.com website, at www.pantip.com
• readAwrite.com website, at www.readawrite.com
• Siamzone.com website, at www.siamzone.com
• Tunwalai.com website, at www.tunwalai.com