People know that we maintain a list of all known websites in Palestine, says computer center director Marwan Tarazi, and because this exists nowhere else, they come to us. Many stay and explore the rest of the site, being exposed to information about the university as a whole. Media interest in BZU website very positive Three local newspapers have reported on the Birzeit University website. This situaition must change. On August 14th, the Israeli Hebrew-language Ma ariv also published a sympathetic review of the Complete Guide to Palestine s Websites section of our website.
Websites are notorious for being incomplete, always under construction and a pain to navigate.
The Birzeit Web Team has tried to avoid this in the implementation of the university web project as much as possible. The first training of 15 students took place during the summer semester, a week-long course held in the Community Health computer laboratory on the Old Campus. Each student had to complete a project in which they constructed a website for a university department. The standard of work was excellent and these sites will soon appear on the university server. With this initiative and other projects, such as the writing of a guide to constructing websites, the Web Team hopes to build a pool of students and staff who are able to carry out the time-consuming work of preparing information material for the university website.