Webster is a new information system for the Web using it as a huge database and not a huge amount of pages. By concentrating on content and not on authorship, Webster offers a new way to search and browse the Web. Webster shows how the presentation and usage of the Web with new semantic technologies could work without using the metaphor of a page in all its dimensions. The metaphor of a page as well as the history of web design will be discussed in the following to present the concept and the basic ideas of Webster in an understandable way.