Patent ID: 7380202

Claim:
A method for customizing and personalizing page control content, comprising: accessing a page that contains at least one computer-based module that has at least one property that can be modified, wherein the property of the computer-based module is stored in a database that is separate from the page; selecting an option to modify the property of the computer-based module, wherein selecting an option to modify the property of the computer-based module comprises choosing from an option to edit the page in a shared access mode and a personal access mode, wherein the shared access mode provides access to shared contents of the page by a plurality of users, and the personal access mode provides access to the shared contents and to personal contents of the page, wherein the personal contents of the page are accessed by only a single one of the plurality of users; determining if unsafe code and page content exist in the page, wherein if unsafe code and page content exist, deactivating the unsafe code and the page content by changing the unsafe code and page content to a comment; and modifying the property of the computer-based module, wherein modifying the property comprises modifying the personal contents of the page in the personal access mode by the single one of the plurality of users without affecting the shared contents of the page when the page is accessed by the remaining plurality of users wherein the modified personal contents of the page may only be accessed by the single one of the plurality of users modified property in the personal access mode may only be accessed by the one of the plurality of users.