Patent ID: 7421659

Claim:
A method for dynamically publishing a document within collaboration space to a screen display including a work area and a side bar by dynamically rendering an image including text, text effects, and image effects by a graphics server from an input text string in combination with aesthetic information for a room in said collaboration space, comprising: displaying a layout button in said side bar, said layout button being a graphical image obtained from said graphics server responsive to user input of a title of said document and aesthetic information for said side bar; responsive to user selection of said layout button, receiving title text into said work are for display in said side bar as a graphic image, said title text being rendered as said graphic image in said side bar by first constructing a graphic image of said title text and then applying to said graphic image aesthetic effects for said side bar; and further responsive to user selection of said layout button, dynamically receiving from said graphics server document text and graphics for display in said work area.