User-Side Web Page Customization

This paper describes a mechanism for user-side Web page customization. The mechanism provides three functions, allowing users to (1) add their own objects such as text, images, hyperlinks, and Java applets to a Web page, (2) change the destination URLs of hyperlinks, and (3) share their customized pages with other users. Users can add text and hyperlinks to Web pages as personal memos. Next time they visit the same Web pages, they will see only their own memos, not the other people’s memos, on those Web pages. Thus, they can use a Web page like a notebook to make annotations. If a user makes a memo public, other users can see the memo on the Web page. An administrator can hide unsuitable hyperlinks, and can also change their destination URLs.