Abstract: An online photo viewing and album management system incorporating website building tools is disclosed. Photos are uploaded from a client computer to a server computer and posted in an ordered manner as separate web pages within an album. Editing tools are provided to allow for resizing, rotation annotation of the photos. The website builder component provides design tools to layout pages and set backgrounds and colors and other visual characteristics of the web pages. Editing commands are received on the server as HTTP calls that originate from the client interface. These updates are applied to the server and the web pages. As incremental updates are received, they are processed and immediately applied to the server, and as requests arrive to edit particular pages, the contents of those pages are queried from the server and assembled into source code for web pages.