USING TEMPLATES FOR ENSURING VISUAL CONSISTENCY AMONG PORTLETS

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 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 to said Portlets, b) wherein the template means comprises a layout specification for GUI-elements to be generated by the Portlets, and c) wherein the Portlets generate a markup code according to prescriptions comprised of said template means.