A promising web portal

As most companies and individuals of the business sector are trying to make an impression on the foreign and local market through glamorous and informative web sites and portal, edubangladesh.com proves that institutions and individuals involved in the education sector are almost at par with them.

"The portal was developed primarily for informative purposes," said Zahidul Alam, Managing Director and Webmaster of edubangladesh.com. "We also plan to generate some revenue as well through sections like Tutor solutions and Advertisements in the near future," he added.

The navigation for the portal is fairly simple with the interesting options like Chat, Forum, E-book, library & Classifieds. Even though the chat option may seem redundant for a portal to most browsers but the other options like forum, E-book, Library and classified will be quite helpful to the browsers interested to learn. These options will become more helpful if the developers and administrators of the portal maintain and update the portal on a regular basis.

The usual options, which a browser is likely to find at an education-based site, are all present in the portal. There are lists of local and foreign universities, schools and colleges and includes links to their home sites. Ranking of institutions may be quite useful to students seeking admission to a good university, or parents looking for a good school to admit their children to.

The Information Desk is a informative part of the portal consisting of useful statistical data, database and links to Geographic Information System (GIS) and enrollment of students in particular institutions.

Other interesting items of the portal are the voting section, News Headlines, Online Tutor Solutions, Education based job news and Open Column.

The portal still needs a lot of 'brushing up'. Most links do not work properly.

As the portal is centered towards education, its users will mostly be students, parents and teachers. The amount of syntax and spelling mistakes the portal currently has may act as 'a thorn' as far as the portal being accepted by these groups of people are concerned.

With improvement in the said areas, and the initiation of other sections, like University Features, Books Update and Business Universities the portal can become a promising tool.

"The forthcoming features will be added soon along with the rectification of the mistakes," said Zahid while asked.