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.
