The city of Zagreb has one large
university that covers all educational areas. Due to the size
of the University of Zagreb and its structure, faculties are more
independent than in other cities or countries. The Faculty of
electrical engineering and computing (FER) is one of the largest
and most prominent faculties of the University of Zagreb. Due
to the facts that the Faculty in located on one location and that
it is fairly autonomous in relation to other University faculties,
the Faculty may be perceived as a smaller campus-like university.
As such, the Faculty web pages reflect that perception and may
be view as a university portal. The main Faculty web-site is called
FER WebWorld, indicating a whole world of on-line information.
The usual content associated with the Faculty educational and
research activities is enriched with on-line information, gateways
to legacy databases, and other information invaluable to students
and staff. Providing comprehensive information gives away a more
vivid picture of the Faculty and student life at FER. Since the
Faculty web pages emerged when Netscape was in pre-release version
0.94, a fair amount of experience and knowledge has been gained
in issues of maintaining a university web site. Apart from demonstrating
the web-site, this presentation focuses on problems providing
on-line information, both organizational and technical, that arise
in a complex environment such as a technical university. In addition,
a future vision of the portal is given, portraying the needs and
wishes of relevant users.
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