Patent ID: 9430579
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a first workstation that locally instantiates a graphical design tool configured to allow a designer to specify a design for a web page; a data store that is: (i) locally available to said first workstation, and (ii) receives and stores said design as a saved design; a second workstation that provides access to a code editor to allow a programmer to: (i) specify a modification to an encoding of a design; and (ii) select a predetermined insertion point for said modification from a set of predetermined insertion points in a code insertion interface, wherein said modification: (i) includes a code snippet for a website plugin feature that can't be defined in said graphical design tool; and (ii) includes a script to insert said website plugin feature at said predetermined insertion point; a server means that: (i) instantiates said code editor for said second workstation; and (ii) saves said modification as a saved modification; and a code generator instantiated by said server means; wherein said first workstation uploads said saved design to said server means; said code generator produces an encoding of said design by exporting said saved design from a native format to an encoded format via an export process conducted by said server means; said server means seamlessly combines said saved design and said saved modification such that said saved modification and said saved design can each be independently altered and recombined to produce a modified encoding of said design by inserting said saved modification into said encoding of said design at said predetermined insertion point; and said predetermined insertion point is: (i) an executable portion of said encoding of said design; (ii) generated by said code generator based on said saved design; (iii) one of said predetermined insertion points in said set of predetermined insertion points; (iv) identified by information in the script; and (v) a name of a widget in said design chosen by said designer.