System and method for managing website content

• US 20050262427A1
• Filed: 03/31/2003
• Published: 11/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: McDowell, Andrew P., Grim, Clifton E. III, Marzke, Rex E., Cantwell, Brad A.
• Application Number:
  US10/403,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20050262427A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/208
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system and method for mapping between live web pages and source content to manage website content. A content administration system is disclosed for managing content areas within a set of web pages, comprising: an administrative interface for viewing and navigating the set of web pages in a live environment, wherein the administrative interface causes an edit link to be displayed for each live content area within the web pages; and a source content management tool for managing source content for the set of web pages, wherein in response to a user clicking on an edit link for a selected live content area, the source content management tool is automatically launched and loaded with the source content for the selected live content area.

Claims

1. A content administration system for managing content areas within a set of web pages, comprising:

an administrative interface for viewing and navigating the set of web pages in a live environment, wherein the administrative interface causes an edit link to be displayed for each live content area within the set of web pages; and

a source content management tool for managing source content for the set of web pages, wherein in response to a user clicking on an edit link for a selected live content area, the source content management tool is automatically launched and loaded with the source content for the selected live content area.

2. The content administration system of claim 1, wherein the administrative interface is instigated after a user logs into the content administration system.

3. The content administration system of claim 2, where the administrative interface comprises a browser having a cookie that allows access to edit links.

4. The content administration system of claim 1, wherein the source content management tool includes a mechanism for launching the administrative interface to view the web pages in a live environment.

5. The content administration system of claim 1, wherein the source content management tool includes a mechanism for installing edit links into the source content.

6. The content administration system of claim 1, wherein the source content is stored separately from the live web pages.

7. The content administration system of claim 1, wherein the source content management tool includes mechanisms for creating, editing, and storing source content.

8. A program product stored on a recordable medium for managing content areas within a set of web pages, the program product comprising:

an interface for viewing and navigating the set of web pages in a live environment;

an administrative mode that causes the interface to display edit links within the web pages for a set of predetermined content areas; and

a mapping system that launches a source content management tool in response to a user clicking on the edit link for a selected content area, wherein the mapping system further causes the source content management tool to automatically load the source content for the selected content area.

9. The program product of claim 8, wherein the interface includes a browser.

10. The program product of claim 9, wherein the administrative mode is activated by enabling a cookie within the browser.

11. The program product of claim 8, wherein the edit links include hypertext markup language statements that launch the source content management tool and load the source content.

12. The program product of claim 8, wherein the source content is stored separately from the live web pages.

13. The program product of claim 8, wherein the source content management tool includes mechanisms for creating, editing, replacing, deleting, and storing source content.

14. A method of managing content areas within a set of web pages, comprising the steps of:

instigating an administrative interface for viewing and navigating the set of web pages in a live environment, wherein the administrative interface causes edit links to be displayed within the set of web pages for each content area;

clicking on one of the edit links for a selected content area; and

launching a source content management tool and loading the source content management tool with the associated source content for the selected content area.

15. The method of claim 14, comprising the further step of:

managing the source content by taking an action selected from the group consisting of;

editing the source content, deleting the source content, replacing the source content, creating new source content, and storing the source content.

16. The method of claim 15, comprising the further step of:

providing the source content management tool with a mechanism for launching the administrative interface to view changes made to the source content; and

launching the administrative interface.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of instigating the administrative interface includes the steps of:

pointing a browser to a login page;

logging in to the login page; and

setting a cookie in the browser.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the source content management tool is automatically launched in response to the clicking of the edit link.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the edit links are not accessible unless the administrative interface is instigated.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein each content area includes at least one live link.