A web page staging area for construction of web pages hidden from view of
the user. Once the web page is constructed, it is displayed to the user
based upon timer event information or receipt of a particular command
instructing that it be displayed. Use of the staging area provides the
user with a more television-like experience in viewing content from the
Internet or other source in that the user need not view a web page being
constructed on a display device. Use of timer event information for
displaying the constructed web page permits synchronization of the web
page with associated programming.