USING TEMPLATES FOR ENSURING VISUAL CONSISTENCY AMONG PORTLETS

摘要

The present invention relates to the field of network computing, and in particular to Web contents accessible via a Portal. It particularly relates to a method and system for controlling the layout of markup fragments of a plurality of Portlets (120) aggregated in web pages of a web Portal. In order to provide a method with improved flexibility for the administration of a Portal which allows to generate a consistent look and feel in a Portal, it is proposed that a) a Portal control component provides a template means (400) to said Portlets (120), b) wherein the template means (400) comprises a layout specification for GUI-elements to be generated by the Portlets (120), and c) wherein the Portlets (120) generate a markup code according to prescriptions comprised of said template means (400).