Most important characteristics of the site
The University website got advanced evaluation ranked as the (fourth) among the Arab site in the sites as per the famous Spanish Lipo MATRIX for Universities websites ranking. This achievement was commended by His Highness the Prince of the Eastern Province and His Excellency the Minister of Higher Education
The site is divided into many sections .There is a section for the Colleges, deanships, scientific research centers.
And another for departments where the site was created subfolder for each side of its many bodies containing a lot of information, activities and news as well as studying plans and identification pages for faculty members. The site is well structured so that the user can easily search by where there is a sub-site for all colleges and another deanships and another for departments and so on.
In addition to the section of the media center and another for students, faculty members that contain the most important services of interest to the users, such as pages for services provided and the most important links. There are also active services provided to the students distinguished from those offered to faculty members and others provided for employees through tabs in the middle of the Home Page.
The website is available in both Arabic and English terms that when you are using the Arabic-language page, you can go directly to the corresponding page in the English language by clicking on the link English page and vice versa.
The new site is distinguished by the fact that it contains a gateway to most applied systems existing in the University such as (email - Employment - Banner - Web City - Blackboard - Administrative Communication - Financial and Administrative systems).
A system is available for news, announcements and events and it allows follow-up of all activities within the university. Also, the same service is made available within each deanship or college where each deanship or college has its own page and can add news or events or referendums, as well as ads.
Ease of navigation between all parts of the site and any page can be accessed directly from any other page in the site.
One of the most important features of the new site is that it is so decentralized that each college can by a person responsible make amendment to the college site either by addition or amendment to the college data or even to that of the deanship.
There is a major Flash Banner in site of the university containing advertising images of the most important University events.
The Site has quick links to the most important pages that a user needs through the flash at the bottom to the right of the Home Page with Photos strapped services pages.
The new website has a video library with videos from the archives of the University as well as varieties of celebrations and meetings students’ participations, so that it allocated part of the page for posts by students from celebrations, seminars and all that concerns the student activities, where a student sends his video to the information center and then it is placed after it is review.
There is a sub-site at the site of the University for the University magazine (Ishraqat) which a browser can view on the site or download as a compressed copy on his own computer.
The University site contains a sub-site of the electronic library so that you can search the contents of the library which are classified according to disciplines and can be viewed on the site or downloaded as a compressed version on the browser’s computer.
The site contains personal sites for faculty (My Page) so that each faculty member can upload what he/she likes such as researches, albums, articles, books and any videos on his personal site.
The site contains administrative communications system so that the employees of the University can see all the circulars and decisions issued by the university through it.
The site contains an admission portal that is shown at the time of admission so that the application for admission is submitted through it, and the GPA is computed. Also, searching for the result, canceling and activating the request for admission and it has an illustrated presentation guide that explain the admissions process and other admissions services.
The site contains discussion forums that allow teachers and students to exchange views on issues of the University and discussions on subjects.
The site contains a guide to the most important University phones.
The site contains a directory of e-mail to employees of the University that can be searched.
Many electronic forms are available on the website for all the transactions within the university.
The site is based on the share point as a dynamic electronic portal and not a fixed page and it has designed and programmed by using the latest technologies such as SQL Server 2005- ASP- PHP-Dot Net- SharePoint 2007. 
