System and method for facilitating the design of a website
First Claim
1. In a computer system, a method comprising:
- providing a link bar comprising link elements for association with at least two selected web page files of a website, the link elements corresponding to a set of at least two links, each link in the set corresponding to another web page file; and
associating the link elements with each of the selected web page files, each link in the set continuing to provide a hyperlink to its corresponding web page file if that web page file is moved with regard to the structural organization of pages of the website by automatically updating hierarchical path information of that page in a data structure that associates the link of the element with the hierarchical path information of the page.
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Abstract
A system and method for designing web pages that enables web designers to place hyperlinks to web pages independent of any hierarchical relationship between the pages of the website. A link bar element is provided within a description of the website. The link bar element includes a persistent set of links, each link corresponding to one of several content files. One or more of the content files may be a web file. The link bar element is associated with at least one web file by including a link bar name in the at least one web file. In addition, other link bar information is stored in the web file and a description of the website is stored in a description file separate from the at least one web file that is associated with the link bar element. The description file includes an identifier for the link bar node and the one or more links. Based on the link bar element included within the web file, the description file is translated into additional instructions configured to cause a browser to create web links on a corresponding web page. The web links correspond to the one or more links in the link bar element.
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1. In a computer system, a method comprising:
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providing a link bar comprising link elements for association with at least two selected web page files of a website, the link elements corresponding to a set of at least two links, each link in the set corresponding to another web page file; and
associating the link elements with each of the selected web page files, each link in the set continuing to provide a hyperlink to its corresponding web page file if that web page file is moved with regard to the structural organization of pages of the website by automatically updating hierarchical path information of that page in a data structure that associates the link of the element with the hierarchical path information of the page. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In a computer system, a system comprising:
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an environment for designing a website;
a link bar accessible via the environment, the link bar capable of having link elements corresponding to links to web page files of the website added thereto independent of any hierarchy of the web page files of the website by having a data structure that associates each link with current hierarchical path information of a corresponding page to which it links and automatically updating the hierarchical path information of that page if the page is moved in the hierarch; and
the environment configured to enable link elements corresponding to links to web page files to be placed on the link bar and to associate the link bar with at least one web page file of the website via the data structure. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for associating web files of a website, comprising:
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a link bar comprising one or more link elements, each link element corresponding to a link to a content file by an association that includes the exact path of the content file and is automatically updated to continue to associate the link with the content file if the content file is moved within a structural organization of files such that the association between the link and the content file is independent of the structural organization of the files;
a web file including information related to the link bar; and
a website file that describes the plurality of content files and describes the link bar. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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Specification