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All staff of the Communication Department were excited that morning. The Reason was They will get the new knowledge to be implemented for designing of the new Communication Department’s website for the Re-Accreditation. All website of the faculty at UII now have used content management system that are newest, faster, and easily accessible. There were two trainers from UII’s Public Relations Webmaster who would be there to accompany all the staff all day long. They are Rizka Ariyanto and Risky Falahiyah.

Rizka Ariyanto was presenting in front of the staff in the Training of Communication Department Website. That big and tall man was busy fiddling with his laptop. He were showing how to operate the dashboard of the website of the Communication Department. Communication Department is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Socio-Cultural Sciences (FPCS) of the Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII). “Don’t forget to fill out the Yoast section. This machine will help our sites to be searched easily by Google index and Google crawl,” Rizky said at the Website Training of the Communication Departments. SEO or Search Engine Optimizer allows websites to be tracked quickly by the Google search engine.

While She explained the slide on power point, some participants begin asking questions interactively.

For example, Zarkoni asks about the advantages of creating content with a wordpress CMS. Pambudi, the another participants, also asked how to optimize the website with Yoast SEO. While Risky explained, his colleague, Rizka Ariyanto, help the other participants. He accompanied other participants who did not understand how to upload with the new CMS. Previously, Communication Department still used Joomla Content Management System (CMS), not WordPress, as the basis for managing its website pages.

On Tuesday, March 5, 2019, Risky and Rizka were presenting as presenters of the FPCS UII Communication Department Website in the Primary Room of Communication Department. All of the Communication Department staff are attend this Website Training. Although the participants occasionally frowned on the terms of information technology (IT) that speakers told, but with the open minded and cool speaker, made the participants understand the lesson sooner or later.

Practice Makes Perfect

Moreover, the training also forced participants to practice directly with their laptops. Not only to train how to produce and upload the content, the UII’s web support team, from UII’s Public Relations,  also introduced new practices in website management at UII. This practices introduce the website team also to carry out routine maintenance. “UII’s web has a lot of visits, so many web visitors are vulnerable to hack. The only solution is to do maintenance and backup data just in case of hacker attacks,” said Ratna Permatasari,  Lecturer of Communication Department who is also Head of UII’s Public Relations.

The simplest basic tips and tricks shared by Rizka are actually simple. “The easiest way to anticipate the web hack is to update the plugins that provided by wordpress.  Don’t hesitate to update our passwords as regularly as possible. But yes, you don’t have to do it every day, isn’t it?” He said then laughing. Rizka closed the training with an advice to the site’s webmasters who will take care the website maintenance: backup your data routine and do web check regularly, Rizka said then.

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Semua staf Prodi Komunikasi pagi itu di bergegas, dan juga bersemangat. Pasalnya, mereka akan mendapat ilmu baru untuk memperbarui perwajahan dan perawatan website Komunikasi UII menjelang Re-Akreditasi Prodi Ilmu Komunikasi UII tahun ini. Kabarnya, semua website unit dna prodi di UII kini telah menggunakan sistem pengelolaan konten yang baru dan lebih cepat dan mudah aksesnya dari segi tampilan. Ada dua pemateri kunci dari Webmaster Humas UII yang akan hadir menemani semua staf seharian itu. Mereka adalah Rizka Ariyanto dan Risky Falahiyah.

Rizka Ariyanto kali itu hadir di depan para peserta Pelatihan Website Komunikasi UII. Pria tinggi besar itu sibuk mengotak-atik perangkat laptopnya sambil menunjukkan cara mengoperasikan dashboard website Prodi Ilmu Komunikasi, Fakultas Psikologi dan Ilmu Sosial Budaya (FPSB) Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII). Rekan Rizka, Risky Falahiyah, juga tak lupa memberikan tips dan trik dalam pengoperasian laman admin website Komunikasi UII ini. “Ini jangan lupa diisi bagian Yoast-nya ya, karena ini mesin untuk membantu pencarian indexing dan crawling google,” katanya di sela pelatihan Website Prodi Ilmu Komunikasi UII. SEO atau Search Engine Optimizer memungkinkan website dan laman yang diunggah terlacak dengan cepat oleh mesin pencari Google.

Sembari menjelaskan, beberapa peserta mulai mengajukan pertanyaan secara interaktif. Misalnya Zarkoni bertanya soal apa kelebihan membuat konten dengan CMS wordpress. Pambudi, salah satu peserta, juga bertanya bagaimana mengoptimalkan website dengan Yoast SEO. Sembari Risky menjelaskan, rekannya, Rizka mendampingi peserta yang lain yang belum memahami cara mengunggah konten dengan CMS baru. Sebelumnya, Prodi Ilmu Komunikasi masih menggunakan Content Management System (CMS) Joomla, belum menggunakan WordPress sebagai basis pengelolaan laman situsnya.

Pada kesempatan Selasa 5 Maret 2019 itu, Risky dan Rizka hadir sebagai pemateri Pelatihan Website Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi FPSB UII di Ruang Rapat Prodi Ilmu Komunikasi FPSB UII. Pelatihan ini diikuti oleh seluruh staf Prodi Komunikasi. Meski peserta sesekali mengerutkan dahi dengan istilah-istilah teknologi informasi (TI), tetapi dengan teknik penyampaian dan bahasa yang bernas dan mudah, membuat peserta kemudian mengangguk paham. Apalagi pelatihan juga “memaksa” peserta praktik langsung dengan laptop masing-masing.

Tak hanya melatih produksi dan unggah konten, tim websupport dari Humas UII ini juga mengenalkan praktik baru dalam manajemen pengelolaan website di UII. Praktik ini mengajak tim website di level prodi untuk juga melakukan perawatan rutin. “Web UII kan banyak kunjungannya, nah web yang banyak pengunjung itu rentan diretas. Solusinya cuma satu ya melakukan perawatan dan menyiapkan cadangan data (backup) sebagai antisipasi serangan hacker,” kata Ratna Permatasari Dosen Prodi Ilmu Komunikasi FPSB UII yang juga Direktur Humas UII.

Tip dan trik dasar paling sederhana yang ditularkan Rizka sebenarnya sederhana. “Paling mudah antisipasi web diretas ya perbarui plugin-plugin yang disediakan wordpress dan juga perbarui kata kunci (password) kita serutin mungkin. Tapi ya tidak harus tiap hari juga ya,” katanya sembari tertawa.

Pelatihan ditutup dengan sebuah petuah wajib buat webmaster situs di manapun: rajin-rajin backup data dan cek status web ya, tambah Rizka.