Abstract: A system for a website building system (WBS) includes a component analysis and visualization (CCAV) module to analyze elements of an underlying application built using the WBS and to generate a visual system architecture diagram (SAD) representing the hierarchical arrangement of the elements. The CCAV module includes a site object build engine to gather and analyze information on the elements and to create a site object representation, a software bill of materials builder to create a software bill of materials from the site object consisting at least of assets and configuration data for the underlying application and a SAD renderer to create and display the SAD where the SAD includes a static application architecture diagram representing the at least assets and configuration data and an aggregated application architecture diagram showing an overlay of at least one of: software, hardware usage, and business data changes affecting the underlying application.

Abstract: Provided is a website building system with temporal external resource allocation integration.

Abstract: A system for a visual design system (VDS) includes storing at least one layout and an associated layout signature where the associated layout signature represents a hierarchical composition of the semantic types of the components; a unit to analyze components of an existing layout provided by a user of the VDS, to determine a component set signature, to compare it with at least one stored associated layout signature and to find a set of candidate layouts which are visually diverse and semantically similar to the existing layout; where the unit presents the set of candidate layouts to the user, updates the existing layout according to a user selected layout. It also includes an experiment system to create, run and analyze the results of at least one experiment using at least one of: A/B and multivariate testing on user selected layouts to provide information on user preferred layouts for the VDS.

Abstract: A system for a website, includes a processor and a unit running on the processor to capture interactions between a user of the website and at least one third party application embedded as an instance in a page of the website and to use the interactions to update a contact record associated with a user. The unit includes a data extractor to extract contact related information from the interactions; and a data merger to merge at least two contact records where the at least two contact records have an association with the same identified user and to merge the extracted contact related information to that of an existing contact record for the identified user according to predefined merging rules.

Abstract: A system for a website building system server, the server having at least one processor and a memory, the system includes: an analyzer and updater to construct a promotional package for a user of the website building system according to at least editing history and/or business intelligence of a website belonging to the user, a channel determiner to determine the best mode of interface to present the promotional package to the user and a marketer to modify the website building system interface for the user according to the best mode of interface.

Abstract: A system for creating and displaying toolcasts includes a processor and a toolcast management system running on the processor in communication with an underlying system. The toolcast management system to create, display and update at least one toolcast to provide media guidance to a user of the underlying system according to the toolcast management interface with the underlying system and the interaction between the user and the at least one toolcast. The toolcast management system includes an interface module to interface with the underlying system and to detect at least one of: objects, data, activities, and events to be recorded in a recording phase for the at least one toolcast; a toolcast creator to record, generate and edit said at least one toolcast according to at least the output of the interface module and a toolcast player to play said at least one toolcast while interacting with said user.

Abstract: A tool and a method for a visual editor of a web page. The tool includes an editor overlap handler to determine display instructions for the visual editor, the web page having a plurality of components wherein some components are regular components that are fully visible and at least one component that is an overlapped or visually obscured component (OOVOC). The plurality of components are associated with display rules and the display instructions depend on a selected point on the web page, z-order of the plurality of components and activation rules associated with components located at a certain proximity from the selected point.

Abstract: A text content generation (TCG) system to generate text for a text field for a website building system (WBS). The TCG system includes a data gatherer to gather text samples from sources internal and external to the WBS; an analysis engine to analyze the text samples and to identify common text structures, substructures and website contexts; an HDS creator to receive the output of the analysis engine and to create a hierarchical data structure (HDS) definition for each text sample accordingly, the HDS creator to also create associated rules for handling the application and behavior for each HDS, where each HDS describes a text element alternative for a given field role and a content management system (CMS) to store the HDS definitions and the text samples.

Abstract: A website building system (WBS) includes at least one processor, one database storing the WBS components and component compositions of multiple websites and multiple per search engine SEO (search engine optimization) behaviors. The per search engine SEO behavior is associated with one website and one search engines and the per search engine SEO behavior contains information that enables ranking the website, the ranking is associated with one of the search engines and an SEO tool running on the processor to provide per search engine recommendations related to changes to the WBS components and component compositions when accessed by at least one search engine based on the per search engine SEO behavior.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, circuits, systems and associated computer executable code for detecting the presence of a mobile computing device in a specific area. Included are means for receiving a message from the mobile device including a coarse location indicator, determining that the received coarse location indicator is in proximity with one or more local (e.g. retailer) stations, and causing at least one of the one or more local stations to transmit a mobile device specific poling signal to the device.

Abstract: Embodiments provide for integrating custom content object repositories within a website building system. In some embodiments, a content object selection interface is generated comprising a plurality of candidate content objects selected based at least in part on a website identifier and one or more website editing historical interactions. The content object selection interface is rendered via a first computing device associated with an editing user identifier. Using a trained customization model and based at least in part on the editing user identifier, one or more selected candidate content objects are transformed into a custom contextualized content object. The custom contextualized content objects are added to a custom content object repository associated with the website identifier.

Abstract: A visual design system includes a dynamic layout editor, a page analyzer, a UI subsystem and a change executor. The dynamic layout editor edits content of a visual creation according to dynamic layout rules. The visual creation includes at least one page having at least two components, the dynamic layout rules are associated with anchors or constraints for positioning the components, and each component has geometrical properties. The page analyzer performs a geometrical analysis on the page in response to a change of components and divides the page into sections based on at least geometrical relationships between the geometrical properties. The UI subsystem generates and presents at least one section to a user for editing as a virtual container containing at least one of the two components. The change executor regenerates and displays the page with the section according to editing changes made during the editing session.

Abstract: A website building system (WBS) includes an experiment management system to provide experiment management services to at least two tenancies where a single tenancy conducts at least one experiment independently without interfering with experiments conducted by other tenancies, the experiment management system includes an experiment creator to receive an experiment specification with source material from an external source and to create an experiment definition based on inspection and analysis of the source material; an experiment integrator to integrate the experiment definition as an experiment into the experiment management system; an experiment configurer to configure a variant and population selection criteria for the experiment; and an experiment manager to manage experiment conflicts between concurrently running experiments for the at least two tenancies at runtime according to the variant and population selection.

Abstract: A website building system (WBS) includes a layout database to store at least one layout having components and an associated layout signature. It also includes a unit to determine a component set signature for an incoming component set having an existing layout provided by a user, to compare the component set signature with at least one associated layout signature of at least one layout from the database to find a match and to replace the existing layout with one of a selected diverse alternative candidate layout from the database according the match. The layout signature and the component set signature represent a hierarchical composition of the semantic types of the components of the layout and of the incoming component set accordingly. A layout adapter and applier adapts content from the user supplied component set to the selected diverse alternative candidate layout.

Abstract: An online website building system includes: an online database configured to store a library of website building elements for configuring a front-end of a webpage, the webpage having been built on a platform including at least common server code; and store rules for accessing code associated with the website building elements; and at least one processor configured to enable the user to edit code associated with a webpage, and to provide a programmable event for activating the resultant user-editable code, where the user-editable code is configured to provide dynamic customized back-end functionality associated with the webpage; store the edited user-editable code in a code storage system in communication with the online database; receive a request to access the webpage, and in response to the request and before the request times out, provide access to a virtualized execution instance comprising at least the common server code and the edited user-editable code.

Abstract: A system includes an application generating website building system (AGWBS) for converting a website to an application (app) which operates on a mobile device. The AGWBS includes at least one database storing at least one layout option for the app and BI (business information) for the website, where the BI includes at least use of settings and features by a designer of the website and of apps of the AGWBS from previous editing sessions and an app-editor to determine an editing mode for a designer of the app according to at least the use of settings and features and to provide at least one layout option from the at least one database for the app according to the editing mode and to receive modification to a designer selected layout.

Abstract: A website building system (WBS) includes a processor implementing a machine learning feedback-based proposal module and a database storing at least the web sites of a plurality of users of the WBS, and components of the websites. The module includes a plurality of per activity AI units and a feedback system. Each per activity AI unit supports one or more specific activity related to the WBS and provides at least one system suggestion to the users related to its specific activity. Each per activity AI unit includes at least one machine learning model suitable for the activity supported by its per activity AI unit. The feedback system provides a plurality of different kinds of feedback from the users and from rule engines for updating the machine learning models. The feedback system analyzes the feedback to determine which one of the at least one machine learning models to update.

Abstract: A system for modifying a website or interactive application, including a published database accessible via an end user data service to present the most up to date version of objects of the website, viewable and editable by at least one user, a draft database accessible via a designer data service and viewable and editable by at least one designer to store edits to the objects of the published database; a published database request handler to coordinate concurrent viewing and updating of the objects between the end user data service and the published database and a draft database request handler to coordinate concurrent viewing, editing and updating of the objects between the designer data service and the draft database and to merge edits and updates to the objects in both the published database and the draft database and to return the merged version of the objects without modifying the published database.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for implementing network transactional-based concurrent editing of a document. An exemplary system includes a transaction assignment module configured to receive at least one object change set originating from at least one change interface session, wherein the at least one object change set is associated with a selected document, parse the at least one object change set to identify one or more objects, one or more object changes, and one or more object groups in the at least one object change set, apply a transaction assignment protocol to the one or more object groups to define at least one object change transaction, and output the at least one object change transaction to a transaction approval determination module.

Abstract: A system for a website building system implemented on a server, the server having at least one processor and a memory and including a site analyzer to generate a representative component for each of a cluster of multiple components of a website of a user, based on an analysis of the attributes of the multiple components; and an editor UI builder to create a dynamically modified user interface at least from the representative components for a visual editor of said website; where the site analyzer and the editor UI builder change the dynamically modified user interface as the user edits the website; and where the visual editor includes a regular user interface and said dynamically modified user interface.