Site Information

Who Created This Site

This site is created by HTAG, the Harvard Theatrical Advisory Group, which is an ad hoc group of students and concerned staff who support Harvard Theater. The group was initially formed to address a lack of technical help on campus, but has grown to cover all aspects of the theater experience. The group attempts to provide support primarily for the smaller groups such as house shows that don't have the resources that a larger group like HRDC has.

In addition, this site is hosted on a machine maintained by the Anderson Group, an atmospheric chemistry research group in the DEAS. Many thanks for their generosity. The webmaster is David Corlette; if you have any questions feel free to contact him directly.

The graphic design was done by Flora Zhang and Richie Williams, both currently Harvard undergrads.

Why This Site Was Created

One of the goals of HTAG is to provide a unified view of Harvard Theater and tie together all the disparate groups. This site is intended to serve that purpose; to provide a logical place to get into the system, and then to provide easy ways of finding out about what's there. To that end, we have developed what we consider a logical front-end, and lots of links to other related sites.

Another goal is to provide information to the Harvard Theater community. This information is being slowly gathered by experience, and our goal is to provide a record of what people have found to be successful in the past. By publishing this material on the web, we hope to enable new students in new roles to find easy ways to avoid duplicating others' efforts.

How This Site Was Created

This site is hosted on a QNX machine running the Apache Web Server. Pages are created using a custom-designed remote web editting system, authored in perl. Although still under development, this system is available to others if they want it.

Documents were tested under Opera and Lynx for readability. Netscape was also tested but the inability to provide a 0in left margin and its slowness hindered its use.