Zdnetindia.com is the result of jasubhai digital media and Cnet networks joint efforts. Simply speaking ZDnetindia.com is an indian edition of ’’ZDNet’’. As it is part of Cnet we can expect that What sort of quality information we can get from here. Well let’s see the features one by one. Once pointing the browser to https://zdnetindia.com will take you to main page of the website from where we can navigate the entire website.
First look:-
Top navigational link bar is common for all webpages within all webpages so you can return safely to main page.Headline section of the website is divided into ’’National & International ’’sections where you ca get detailed news As site is updated daily. National news gives local it news in india & the bottom of that headline box shows Newsletter sign up feature which I suggest u not to subscribe. Why? Because your mail box will be jammed with spam. How? We’ll see about it later.
In the right hand side there is sections called ’’Reviewers Peak’’ where hardware and software is reviewed, this is excellent as it is helpful before buying any hardware stuff. You can also learn about compatibilty issues as it is deatiled in it’s review. Under this box you can see digit contest zone which is contest for digit readers & ZDnet surfers, chance to win a lot of stuff.hmm! Sounds cool.
Special feature below this contest zone is many article links on Virus Workshop-where u can learn about latest viruses and its prevention, next link windows xp which is excellent for xp users. Tips section is for office users which include sub -softwares like Power point and office xp etc. Web service link takes you the section where web developement issues are disscussed. While linux link takes you the section which will update u to latest on ope source world.
’’Buying guide’’ is good stop if you wanted to buy something and wanna know about it fully then this section is for you which contains information about Mobiles, Notebooks, Desktops, Motherboards, Servers, ISP and handles.
Quality of information and comparison:-
Well Cnet networks informative sites gives you detailed information about the topic they take into hand. But even then I found that PCworld is much better why?
because pcworld gives many tips and trick about computer also they hunt for computer hardware and software crashes and shows u solution for it.
PCWORLD have informative guide for processor, linux and antivirus softwares and people love articles that gives detailed information and solves thier problems this is the reason why I like pcworld. Well ZDnetindia also put’s nice information on site, what I learned from thier site is that we can play games on win execl, surprised check out thier site.
As entire content mentioned in the zdnetindia.com is added, compressed and presented to you as digit magazine, sounds boaring yeah! when I realised that I stoped my subscription to digit.
Misc:-
Download section is full of shareware than freeware, I wonder why they search for shareware than freeware can do the job. Server buying and isp finder zone is nice addition for buyers. You can also check your isp speed on this site. Networking, Help and How-to section is for us we can digg for information on this link.
Subscribe to newsletter feature will send you daily news, download of the day and other buy this and that information on your email. And congratulations your email is jammed. Yeah that is the reason why I told you not to sign up.
Overall this site is excellent and good for beginners but those have lot of touch into the computing and want to learn the latest then lockergnome.com and pcworld.com is good place to go.