Abstract: A website building system including a visual editor to support user editing of a website page of the website building system; the page having regular components and overlapped and hidden components and an editor overlap handler to determine display instructions for the visual editor for the overlapped and hidden components according to activation conditions, the activation conditions based on a user selected point on the page, activation rules and information on components of the page, the information including component proximity to or component interaction with said user selected point, z-order and at least one of: general relationships between the components on said page, information on the user and information on the system.

Abstract: A website building system includes a determiner, a converter and an interface. The determiner determines an editable subset of the multiple components within a user selected portion. For each single page container component of the editable subset components, a converter dissolves the single page container component and merges components of the single page container component into a parent page. The converter converts the updated page-based hierarchy into a linear user interface. The converter also defines an ordered list of the editable subset components of a page associated with a linear menu. The interface presents both the page-based user interface and the linear user interface and enables editing content of the editable subset components in both the page-based and the linear user interfaces. The interface reflects changes from the editing in one user interface into the other user interface.

Abstract: A tool for a website building system (WBS) includes a database storing text options formed of a hierarchical data structure (HDS) associated with a field role, based on information gathered internally and externally to the WBS, each HDS having nodes and sub-trees representing field content, text paragraphs and sentences; a role determiner to determine a field role for an editable text field of a web site edited or generated with said WBS; an analysis engine to make at least one text option recommendation from the database for the field role; an HDS editor to enable a user to select one recommended text option and to edit a local instance of an HDS of the text option including editing nodes and sub-trees of a local instance of the HDS and a text generator to linearize the local instance and to generate the text for site generation for an editor of the WBS.

Abstract: A website building system includes a database, a displayer, an editor and a dynamic layout editor. The database stores pages and components of a website, where each component is either a master component associated with a master page or a regular component associated with a regular page. The master and regular components have associated dynamic layout rules which define the relationships between one website component and at least one other website component. Each component has at least a regular handle and a smart handle. The displayer displays a composite page of master and regular components. The editor enables a user to choose to edit the master components or the regular components. The dynamic layout editor provides a handle set where some smart handles can change the boundary between the selected components and the non-selected components.

Abstract: An application generating website building system (AGWBS) converts a website to an application which operates on a mobile device. The system includes a website building system (WBS) to enable a user to build a website, and to host the website, a database to store website data that includes at least a structure of the website, an application generator repository to store at least several per-vertical base apps, where each per-vertical base app is a template app for one type of business, and an application generator to determine the website type of business, to generate an initial extended application content file (XACF) at least from an associated per-vertical base app for the type of business, to analyze the structure of the website to generate a graph of elements of the website and to use the graph to modify the associated per-vertical base app into an XACF defining the mobile application.

Abstract: An experiment management system for an online visual design system including 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 the experiment and at least one other experiment during the execution of the experiment at runtime of the online visual design system according to the variant and population selection.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to website hosting implemented in a server environment. Operations include co-hosting, on a hosting server, a plurality of websites generated by a plurality of users; making available to the plurality of users common editing tools; preventing at least some of the plurality of users from altering co-hosted specific websites generated by others of the plurality of users; generating an interface for enabling the at least one subset of the plurality of users to upload to the hosting server plugin code associated with plugins for the co-hosted specific websites generated by the at least one subset of the plurality of users; storing the user-uploaded plugin code; and securely enabling, using an isolation mechanism, at least one of execution of front-end plugin functionality code at the client or execution of back-end plugin functionality code at the plugin server.

Abstract: A website building system, the system includes a layout database to store least one layout and an associated signature where the signature represents a semantic composition of the at least one layout, a page analyzer to at least generate an associated signature for a user supplied handled component set, a signature comparer to perform a comparison of the signature of the user supplied handled component set with the associated signature of the at least one layout stored on the layout database, a layout searcher and generator to acquire at least from the layout database a set of candidate layouts according to the results of the signature comparer and where the candidate layouts are visually different and semantically similar from the user supplied handled component set and a layout adapter and applier to adapt the handled component set to a selected layout from the set of candidate layouts.

Abstract: A method for a website building system, the method includes gathering and analyzing business family and industry data related to a website designer using the website building system from a plurality of sources external and internal to the website building system, wherein the data is associated with information about the designer extracted from answers to at least one questionnaire and from available business identifying information for the website designer; offering to the designer in conjunction with a website editor, multiple layout solutions based on pre-defined design elements to handle content and layout associated with the data based on ranking, machine learning and artificial intelligence; enabling the designer to select and edit at least one layout solution; and generating a website for the designer based on the at least one selected layout solution.

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 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: A system and method for a website including a detector to detect and analyze at least the source of at least one incoming request and a uniform resource locator (URL) handler to parse the incoming request. The system and method also include a coordinator with access to at least one third party application to coordinate between the URL handler and at least one third party application and at least one renderer to receive the output of the coordinator and the detector and to generate at least one of a regular website page, an indexing adapted page and a sitemap according at least to the source of the incoming request.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to previewing dynamic web pages via an online editor interface. Operations include storing a plurality of data elements for display on a plurality of web pages; storing instructions for enabling organization of the data elements into a plurality of groups; providing instructions to a browser to display an interface for enabling a user to add data elements to the database, to associate each added data element with at least one of the plurality of groups, and to modify the at least one of front-end code and back-end code; executing instructions to generate the plurality of scrollable virtual web pages; and providing instructions to the browser to display a preview interface configured to display the plurality of scrollable virtual web pages.

Abstract: A device for a website building system. The device includes a page composer to create a page containing website instances of at least one third party application and a configurer to define a 2-way communication backchannel between the page and the at least one third party application or between the at least one third party application and at least one other third party application. The device also includes a coordinator to coordinate communication according to the communication backchannel when the page is viewed or accessed.

Abstract: A system implementable on a computing device for handling color assignment within a complex document includes a user interface to facilitate user modification of at least one first color to at least one second color within a previously chosen color scheme for a component of the document. The color scheme has a predetermined number X of principal colors and a predetermined number Y of associated subordinate colors per principal color. The system also includes a color handler to modify the color scheme to produce an updated color scheme to match a perceived brightness of the at least one second color throughout at least a portion of the updated color scheme and a color processor to process and apply the updated color scheme at least to the component.

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.

Abstract: Collections identifying associated content objects, such as user-defined collections, are stored. A request to display or play a seed content object is received. A plurality of seed collections are identified based on the seed object. A plurality of candidate content objects are identified based on the identified seed collections, for instance by identifying the content objects that are identified by the seed collections. Properties of the seed object are identified, such as the categorization of the seed object, or the tags associated with the seed object. The candidate objects are ranked based on the identified seed collections and the identified properties of the seed object, and a candidate object is selected for recommendation to the user based on the ranking. The ranking of candidate objects can also be determined based on the coherence of the seed collections and the centrality of the seed object to the seed collections.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to online website building using customized back-end functionality. Operations include maintaining an online database configured to store a library of website building elements for configuring a front-end of an indexable web page; transmitting instructions to a browser permitting a user to remotely access the stored library, and to permit the user to utilize a selection of the building elements for constructing the front-end of the indexable webpage; receiving specifications from user to configure a programmable event for activating user-editable code providing customized back-end functionality associated with the indexable webpage; receiving user edits to the code; storing the edited code; and in response to a trigger associated with the programmable event, executing the edited code for implementing the customized back-end functionality.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to on-demand assignment of a web-server execution instance for a website server. Operations include storing generic website server code for hosting websites; storing website specific code unique to each of the websites; controlling a plurality of web-server execution instances, at least some of the instances running website specific code unique to at least one of the websites, and at least others of the web-server execution instances running the generic website server code devoid of the specific unique code for any one website; receiving a request to access a specific website; determining whether the specific website is already hosted, and if not, directing the request to a first one of the plurality of web-server execution instances and injecting into the first one of the plurality of web-server execution instances running the generic website server code, additional website specific code unique to the requested website.