A method of increasing the awareness of users of the Internet to services
and products provided by web sites, wherein the method includes
establishing a hosting web site on the Internet having a data processor
for registering web site owners (WSO's) as subscribers to a hosting
service. The method also includes storing a program of a browser add-on
in the web site, and incorporating a set of customizable characteristics,
wherein each WSO subscriber is enabled on said hosting web site to
customize said browser add-on for defining specific look and
functionalities of the browser add-on. The method further includes
registering WSO's as subscribers to the hosting service, providing the
data processor with a data base for each WSO subscriber, storing the
customization data of the browser add-ons in the data bases of the
respective WSO subscribers, generating code to be integrated in a web
site of the WSO, wherein the code includes a unique identifier of the
customization data stored at the hosting web site, in the data base of
the respective WSO subscriber. Whenever a user of the Internet activates
the code in the WSO subscriber web site, another step provides
downloading the browser add-on and the customized data related to the WSO
subscriber from the data processor of the hosting web site to the
personal computer (PC) of the Internet user and integrating the browser
add-on in a web browser installed in the PC.