Website Builder Systems and Methods with Device Detection to Adapt Rendering Behavior Based on Device Type

• US 20140075283A1
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cimpress Schweiz GmbH (Cimpress Plc)
• Original Assignee: Vistaprint Technologies Limited (Cimpress Plc)
• Inventors: Coursol, Sebastien
• Granted Patent: US 9,147,004 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Mobile website building tools which may be used to build a mobile-ready website from a mobile device includes a design studio application downloaded for executing on the mobile device. The design studio application detects a device type and enables dynamic preview rendering if the device type is a traditional computing device, and for device types that are mobile devices, batches user modifications to a website under construction until a preview or save request is made by the user.

Claims

1. A website building tool for building a website, comprising:

an application executing on a mobile device, the application communicating with a server and operating to present a graphical user interface on a display screen of the mobile device, the mobile device comprising one or more user input device for entering user input;

the application configured to present a user-configurable website template to a user of the mobile device and one or more controls responsive to user input for editing elements of the website template to create a user-customized website,

the application further configured to queue and store user edits to the website template in a local store on the mobile device and to send the queued user edits to the server for display rendering only upon receipt of a user input requesting preview or saving of the user edits.

2. The website building tool of claim 1, wherein the application is configured as a guided wizard comprising a plurality of different pages wherein each page allows a user of the mobile device to customize or edit at least one different feature of the website.

3. The website building tool of claim 1, wherein the application is downloaded from the server.

4. The website building tool of claim 1, wherein at least one of the editing controls comprises a syntactic language format translation tool which allows a user to enter text formatting syntax directly into a text box, which is translated by the syntactic language format translation tool into a Rich text display when rendered.

5. The website building tool of claim 1, wherein the syntactic language format translation tool parses different formatted sections of text into respective different fields, and presents the different fields in the graphical user interface as separately editable.

6. The website building tool of claim 5, providing one or more controls to allow the user to reposition the separately editable fields relative to each other.

7. A system, comprising:

a server responsive to a request from a client device to serve a web page from which a website building tool may be launched, the server downloading a design studio application to the client device for executing on the client device,

the server responsive to a selection indication received at the client device indicating a selection of a corresponding template by downloading a preview version of a user website based on the selected template to the client device,

the design studio application configured to determine a device type of the client device, and to enable dynamic preview rendering of the user website in response to user modifications to the user website if the device type is determined to be a conventional computing device, and if the device type is determined to be a mobile device to cache the user modifications at the client device and to request preview rendering of the user website only upon request by the user.