A Metamodel for Web Page Design

Since the beginning of the 90's, the phenomenal growth of Internet was supported by the power given to the authors to carry out and distribute documents to a broad audience. These documents, presented in Web pages and grouped into coherent presentations, are usually stored in individual files. The management of their contents then becomes a problem. In this paper, we propose a metamodel for web pages design allowing to describe the content, structure and layout of Web presentations. This description is done through a Web page model that can be stored in a database and then easily accessed and reused. We then integrate in the same database the Web page models as well as the data composing the Web presentations. We are then able to guarantee the consistency of the information presented and to facilitate the management of contents.