Amman-21 December,2014

   

Under the leadership of the German Jordanian University's President, Prof. Natheer Abu Obeid, the Information Systems and Technology Center (ISTC) at GJU launches the new official GJU website.

Prof. Natheer Abu.Obeid congratulated the GJU staff and students on the new website, and thanked the ISTC for their exceptional work and efforts, praising their work that enables the university to fulfill its mission.  

Dr. Feras Al-Hawari, Director of the ISTC, said that the website development team was formed in October 2013 in order to develop a new state of the art website for the GJU. The team's main goal was to deliver a website that is: simple, nice looking, easy to navigate, well structured, content rich, and dynamic.

He also emphasized that the established team is multifaceted as it was capable of handling all the technical requirements that were needed to accomplish this important project. The team was responsible for setting up the hosting environment, deploying the content management system, developing the website (e.g., HTML pages, CSS, menus, tables, templates, slideshows, databases, scripts), designing the graphics of the website, as well as administering and securing the website. Furthermore, the team trained and helped the content editors of each school and department in the GJU in order to make sure that all the entered content is consistent and complies with the website's guidelines (e.g., structure, language, visual appearance).

Dr. Al-Hawari elaborated that the website is hosted on a secure and powerful server on which a Linux based OS is running in order to make use of the many Open Source applications that are supported on the Linux platform. In addition, an open source content management platform is used to facilitate the content management and editing by several web page administrators. Moreover, the website's content (e.g., image files, PDF files, information) is stored in a database management system to facilitate the dynamic generation of the website pages as well as the retrieval of all the stored data and information.

It is worth mentioning that the technical team who developed the website is led by Dr. Feras Al-Hawari (Director of ISTC and website architect), and included Eng. Mai Al-Zoubi (Website administration), Eng. Hala Barham (Website development), Mr. Dirar Mousa (Website graphic design), Eng. Wael Sararhah (Website host administration), as well as Mr. Hadi Etawi (Website content editing).

The new GJU website can be reached at: http://www.gju.edu.jo