The present invention is a system and method for providing and displaying
information collected from a variety of information providers such as an
electronic mail server or an information content server. Each of the
variety of information providers provides information updates which are
captured and rendered in a variety of status images which are provided to
a user via a Web page or similar facility. The display of information on
the Web page is robust against displays from one or more of the
information providers since each of the status images and the remainder
of the Web page content are rendered independently.