5 Best Practices for Building Your Portal in a Web 2.0 World

Not that many years back, portals were nothing more than splash pages from which users could click on links to navigate a school's web-based resources. Today, however, they are much more: single sign-on gateways that easily enable users to do everything from pay tuition and view transcripts, to purchase parking permits, and sell used books. Still, engineering portals is not easy. This article presents five tips on how schools can make their portal projects more powerful.