This site needs therapy!!!

BY Syeda Zehra


Gone were the times when interpersonal connections were the ‘only’ means to gather information and socialize. We have passed the era of communication revolution and have stepped into the modernized techno-tronic world where everything is just a click away. Search engines provide us information from every nook and corner of the world. Rest of the responsibility is assured by the widely popular social networking sites.

Being a student of University of Karachi (UoK), Mass communication department, and an active internet user, I strongly feel the need of a proper website of my campus. The first impression after visiting www.uok.edu.pk is everlasting. Readers do not start thinking that the site is so informative and well designed that it leaves an enchanting effect. The fact is it has the same look for last seven years (as far as I know).

The ‘Quick news’ section is the only link which bears the honour of getting updated everyday. Rest of the site includes information about existing departments and teachers. The map of the university is the same which was uploaded I guess at its launching. A significant example is my department, marked near the library sciences department in the map, which no more exists.

The site looks like a half baked cake and provides information in bits and pieces about the campus. Only the news of the announcement of a result is flashed with zero details and the results of BS programs are totally disregarded where as all other public sector universities upload detailed account of results in PDF format. May be I m expecting too much after all it is UoK where the proforma of every semester is provided after a year!

Recently I was shocked but happy to see a newly designed homepage of our varsity’s site but the happiness lasts for a click which pushed me back into the former html format website again. It forces me to think that may be there is a ray of light at the end of the tunnel (hope it’s not a truck!).