Patent ID: 8635548

Claim:
In a page development tool, a method for configuring a page for drag and drop arrangement of content artifacts, comprising: populating a content artifact registry with a plurality of content artifacts, each of said content artifacts defining a draggable and droppable form of a particular type of page content; and defining a drop zone within the page to receive a dragged and dropped one of said content artifacts, said drop zone defining a consumable type of page content and an action to undertake when consuming a dropped one of said content artifacts having a particular type of page content consistent with said consumable type of page content, wherein said populating step comprises the steps of: explicitly expressing a content artifact, said explicit expression comprising a draggable and droppable form of a particular type of page content and a plurality of content artifact parameters for said page content artifact; and, populating said content artifact registry with said explicitly expressed content artifact.