HASCS will then ask students for feedback and adjust the portal pages as needed.
"Right now, [the running time] is too slow to make any kind of announcement," Steen said.
Preliminary versions of the portal pages for students and faculty, as well as sample pages, are already on the Internet at http://my.harvard.edu.
The pages include a customizable list of student group events and a calendar listing campus events. In constructing the calendar, HASCS bought a package that included the source code, so that it could specially configure it according to the needs of the project.
Steen warned that although the portal pages function, they are very slow and may not save any changes made to them because the code is still changing--and more hits to the site will further slow the pages.
HASCS will not have the capacity for all students to look at their pages until the coding is moved to the production machine, he said.