Greatly Reviewed!

First of all, congratulations to UGM’s website builder team! You rock, bro! There’s quite a lot of things that makes their site look cooler among other Indonesian universities’ sites. Let me just count them.

First, the site is somewhat light to access. Their page size is generally very small. Yet, there’s a price for anything. That is… very simple design. In terms of design, I believe this site’s design is much better (don’t compare to this site, it’s way much better, look at it’s Indonesianly classic design, batik, batik, batik–it’s the ideal Indonesian site, IMHO).

Second, its subdomains vary in terms of CMS, sitemapping and designs. Some uses wordpress, some uses home-made wordpress-like CMS, some are half-static, and so on. Well, I do believe visitors will find it quite cozy browsing through this university’s site.

Third, its subdomains (offices’, faculties’, department’s, services’ sites, etc) are very well-updated, thanks to the wordpress-like CMS, I guess. Faculties’, Departments’, offices’, and centers’ staffs can easily update their homepage once they need to do it.

Fourth, as webometrics urges, this site’s rich files are quite a lot, which means they have a huge desire to propagate knowledge to all people in the world regardless walks of life. This boosts their webometrics score.

I think that’s all about UGM’s site. Tomorrow, you’ll find me with another university’s site to review. Which university will it be? Just guess, :D.

Well, I just changed my mind. I’m not gonna start with the highest-achiever in webometrics. I’ll start from the most respectable university, at least in my opinion (this decision is subject to whimsical changes, hehehe).University of Indonesia is one of the oldest universities in Indonesia, and also one of the most respectable among state universities. If they do get high score in webometrics ranking, it should not be to nobody’s wonder.

Let’s go straight down the review: its design is quite simple. It adheres to much to the university official color: yellow. A yellow-dominated website can be great. However, since UI has no other color (except the black text and the very pallidly colorful picture), it just bores almost anyone visiting it for the first time. So, for the design, it just needs lots of improvement.

As for the service, this site is quite complete. You can find it’s profile and all introductory stuffs, you can find its button to IT-based services for students, you can find catchy links to the university’s units, such as research center and language center, which are often very important for people.

By the way, don’t forget about the fact that research center’s site is quite separated from the official university site with completely different tone of design. It’s quite refreshing.

Last but not least, what makes it not-so-nice-visiting is its English version. There is only several pages available in English, they’re the introductory pages. Many hyperlinks on the English version pages lead to Indonesian pages. And the English news page also needs more frequent updating. Anyway, congratulations for UI for being the best Indonesian university site in webometrics ranking.

OMG, I forgot. You know what? The very first thing I should’ve done is THANKING. Yeah, thanking. Thanks to Great_WW for making such a historical accident that this domain name now exists. Thanks for it, Bro. I can’t conceive how I should pay back. Well, let’s pray that we (this blog and yours) can get the highest PR any webmaster has ever dreamed of.

Anyway, greviewed is a cool name (thanks for you). It began (and still–at least now when I’m composin this entry) as a meaningless word. Yet, I’ll promise you by You-Know-Who, I’ll make it another entry in the vocabulary of any netter. Then, you’ll find yourself a genius in disguise. Hehehe…