Feb 22
I haven’t found any positively-one-hundred-percent correct answer why most of Indonesian universities’ sites do not arrange their menus in a simply usage-oriented manner? That is, why don’t they just be like American or English universities’ sites that highlight only some menus on their first page (home) and let the rest be sub menus.
As a concrete example, you can go to this site, and you’ll find that only “Prospective Students”, “Current Students”, “Admission”, “Visitors” on its first page. They are among the most frequently clicked menus. That is, they’re the major reason why other people open this website.
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Feb 22
You might say that internet is very familiar with the whole academic society members in most of Indonesian universities. That’s right. Some of them have even been doing online admission process. However, making and maintaining website is another thing, even among academic society members! This explains why many Indonesian universities’ websites are ill-managed, ill-updated, and ill-this and ill-that…
However, this era will likely to depart from us, thanks the second biggest invention in the 20th century: blog. Yeah, thanks to blog technology, today some institutions have “healthy” (well-updated) web presence. Just to take an example, look at this one: it uses blog-like CMS right? It’s not so difficult for any of their staffs to update their site anytime they’ve got something to offer their readers. What seems to need a rather advanced webbuilding skill is just the first process, tailoring the CMS whether from the ready-made WordPress.org or MoveableType.org CMSes or from the one you build yourself. Just that. That’s the only moment (with next rarely tailoring sessions) when you need DreamWeaver. Next, you don’t need Dreamweaver, Adobe Contribute, and all no more. Any of your staffs will just need Modzilla Firefox or IE and that’s all.
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