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Bhutan's first Dzongkha website: Design
The website uses the National Library font Pem Tshewang and contains all the English version's links. The publications that can be accessed from the website includes all the volumes of the bi-annual journal of Bhutan studies, Bhutan's national bibliography, discussion papers on various subjects like the Gross National Happiness, and monographs, a series of publications on various subjects authored by both Bhutanese and foreign scholars.
Some of the monographs included in the website are Historical Profile of Dechenphu Gyenyen Neykhang, The Necklace of Pearls: Biography of the 13th Druk Desi Sherab, The Gem-Necklace of Short Biography of Hungrel Dung Dung and His Descendants, and The Introductory Biography of the Hereditary Prince Incarnation (The First Zhabdrung, Ngawang Namgyel).
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Centre for Bhutan Studies Publications Monograph
< Learning Dzongkha takes more time than English at the initial stage

Designing a Dzongkha website at present is actually impossible since Dzongkha is yet to be incorporated into MS Word. As such the new website has its own share of shortcomings. A corporate webmaster said that the CBS Dzongkha website was completely image-based. He added that an image-based website allows limited content and is not user freindly.

"Updating information in such a website is also difficult and tedious," he said. "There is also no question of running keyword searches." But Sakaida Hideaki is happy that a break through has been made. "We have finally harnessed the technology to promote the national language and CBS is the right institute to launch such an important website," Sakaida Hideaki said.

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