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.
Yeah. I bet it will be good for us non-IT experts to boos our web presence. Hehehe… Hey, you know what? Those people who are active in universities’ research centers, community service centers, have poor web presence just because they are not familiar with Dreamweaver, Contribute and all, while actually they’re very active off-line. For me, it’s quite okay for them for not knowing how to build or maintain websites. However, it’s not right if they are not cyberly presence. Then, blog CMS is the key! Okay programmers, build them a blog each, and let them manage it! They’ll do it for fun!
