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.
