Method and system for implementing a website builder

• US 9,286,273 B1
• Filed: 03/11/2013
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Plesk International GmbH
• Original Assignee: Parallels IP Holding GmbH
• Inventors: Bobykin, Anton, Tormasov, Alexander G., Protassov, Stanislav S., Beloussov, Serguei M., Kugayevsky, Andrey, Oleinikov, Sergey, Tsybrovskyy, Yuriy, Lystzev, Sergey
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie
• Application Number:
  US13/792,604
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A method and system for a site builder. The site builder is an application designed to create and edit websites for hosting providers, resellers and end users. Built with hosting in mind, the proposed site builder allows providers to easily offer site building capabilities to their customers. The easy five-step wizard interface provides for an effortless way for customers to create, modify and update their own websites without any technical skills or HTML know-how. The site builder application for LINUX/Unix or WINDOWS also comes with a comprehensive administration panel that allows providers to quickly and easily tailor the application to their needs.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for automated generation of web sites, the method comprising:

(a) generating a plurality of web page templates and storing them in a template library on a content server;

(b) establishing a network connection between the content server and a client;

launching a site builder application on a client, the site builder application comprising a plurality of site builder wizards configured to receive and process site content data;

(c) acquiring the web page templates from the template library and rendering them to a user via a first site builder wizard;

(d) rendering to the user a web page design choices via a second site builder wizard;

providing a third site builder wizard to a user for selecting a web page structure;

presenting a user with a wizard for filling in a web page text and graphics;

generating a preview of the web page and rendering it to the user;

(e) sending the web page to a specialist for a usability assessment; and

(f) publishing the web page upon completion of the usability assessment, wherein;

the templates are generated based on keywords and weight coefficients of the keywords, and each set of the keywords provides a basic web page color scheme using a color scheme shift vector; and

wherein the shift vector adjusts the web page color scheme on an element by element basis and adjusts a positioning of the elements on the web page based on the keywords and the weight coefficients.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a new web page template and adding it to the template library, if a desired by the user template is not found.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing the usability assessment by an emulator executing user actions on the web page.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the emulator tests the web page on different platforms.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the web page templates reflect web site categories.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user can select web page color scheme.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user can insert video into the web page.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising search optimization of the web page by GOOGLE™

web master tools.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user is given a choice of languages for the web page.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the user is given a common template.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the site builder application resides on the content server and is accessible to the client.

12. A system for implementing a web site builder, the system comprising:

a processor;

a memory; and

a computer program logic stored in the memory and executed on the processor, the computer program logic for executing the steps of;

generating a plurality of web page templates and storing them in a template library on a content server;

establishing a network connection between the content server and a client;

launching a site builder application on a client, the site builder application comprising a plurality of site builder wizards configured to receive and process site content data;

acquiring the web page templates from the template library and rendering them to a user via a first site builder wizard;

rendering to the user a web page design choices via a second site builder wizard;

providing a third site builder wizard to a user for selecting a web page structure;

presenting a user with a wizard for filling in a web page text and graphics;

generating a preview of the web page and rendering it to the user;

sending the web page to a specialist for a usability assessment; and

publishing the web page upon completion of the usability assessment,

wherein;

the templates are generated based on keywords and weight coefficients of the keywords, and each set of the keywords provides a basic web page color scheme using a color scheme shift vector; and

wherein the shift vector adjusts the web page color scheme on an element by element basis and adjusts a positioning of the elements on the web page based on the keywords and the weight coefficients.