"We believe that the inaugural version, developed by Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, takes a major step in this direction," said Martin, who serves as dean for research and information technology in FAS and chairs the FAS IT committee.

Since the fall, the group developing the site has been seeking student feedback on the beta version and making changes to the page.

Now, administrators are hoping the page will enable the University to get information to students with the click of a mouse.

"We look forward to the portal becoming every individual's home-and-away-from-home page," said Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in a press release.

But several students said yesterday that the site announcement hasn't changed their web-browsing habits.

"I just noticed it a couple days ago," said Valerie R. Dixon '01.

Dixon said that although she saw the login announcement, it hasn't prompted her to actually visit the site.

"I didn't even give it a second thought," she said.