Howard wants to share the University of Washington portal with you. Finally, the University Web Developer's List , uwebd , not only has a currently active thread on campus portals, but is a resource of interest to all of us who develop Web resources for higher education. The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Neilsen. A gateway to web access. A hub from which users can locate all the web content they commonly need.
Different roles require different information.
Someone from grounds and buildings needs different info than the chair of computer science. Different people with the same role work differently. Customization insures they don't miss anything. Link Integrity - Software insures that links work or go away. Corporations are replacing their internal homepages with portals.