Method for authoring, developing, and posting electronic documents
First Claim
1. A method for developing a network-accessible electronic document comprising the steps of:
- a) receiving a document authoring page in an electronic format from a developer system;
b) creating, by an author computer which is separate from the developer system, a first electronic document which includes author-specified information specified by an author of the first electronic document, wherein the first electronic document is created using the document authoring page;
c) sending the first electronic document across a first network to a developer computer which is part of the developer system;
d) receiving, over the first network from the developer computer, a modified document, wherein the modified document is based on the first electronic document and includes additional information; and
e) displaying, by the author computer, a graphical display defined by the modified electronic document.
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Abstract
A method for authoring, developing, and posting an electronic document is performed in a system which includes an author computer (102) operated by an author, and a developer system (110) which includes a developer computer (114) operated by a developer. After a qualification procedure (214-242) which includes sending (233) an auto-response message to an e-mail address indicated by the author, the developer system sends (312) the author a document authoring page (370) over a first network (120). Using the document authoring page, the author enters (316) certain information describing a Web page which the author desires to have created. The author computer sends (322) that information to the developer system, and a developer modifies (330) an HTML document describing the Web page to put it in a form that is ready for posting to a network server (116, 130). After the author approves (344) the final HTML document, the developer system posts (348) the document to the server. The Web page associated with the final HTML document is then accessible for viewing over the second network.
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22 Claims
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1. A method for developing a network-accessible electronic document comprising the steps of:
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a) receiving a document authoring page in an electronic format from a developer system;
b) creating, by an author computer which is separate from the developer system, a first electronic document which includes author-specified information specified by an author of the first electronic document, wherein the first electronic document is created using the document authoring page;
c) sending the first electronic document across a first network to a developer computer which is part of the developer system;
d) receiving, over the first network from the developer computer, a modified document, wherein the modified document is based on the first electronic document and includes additional information; and
e) displaying, by the author computer, a graphical display defined by the modified electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for developing a network-accessible electronic document, the method performed by a developer system, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) providing, by the developer system, a document authoring page in an electronic format over a first network to an author computer that is separate from the developer system;
b) receiving, by a developer computer within the developer system, a first electronic document from the author computer, wherein the first electronic document includes author-specified information specified by an author of the first electronic document, and the first electronic document was created using the document authoring page;
c) displaying, by the developer computer, a graphical display defined by the first electronic document;
d) modifying the first electronic document to include additional information, wherein the additional information is specified by a developer of the first electronic document, and the modifying step results in a modified electronic document; and
e) sending the modified electronic document across the first network to the author computer. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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