Patent ID: 8041764

Claim:
A method, comprising the steps of: receiving, in at least one computing device, a request from a client to generate a preview bundle, the preview bundle corresponding to a production content page generated in a production environment, the production content page generated from a web application framework page and further comprising a plurality of source elements configured to cause display of a plurality of data elements; specifying, in the at least one computing device, a portion of the preview bundle as a user developed portion; generating, in the at least one computing device, the preview bundle, the preview bundle based at least upon the production network page and further generated by replacing source elements of the production content page associated with the user developed portion with at least one data structure element formatted in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format containing the data elements referenced by the source elements of the corresponding production content page in the user developed portion; transmitting, from the at least one computing device, the preview bundle to a layout preview server; rendering for display, in the layout preview server, the source elements of the preview network page outside the user developed portion; and applying, in the layout preview server, a user generated template to the user developed portion of the preview network page, the user generated template configured to extract and display the subset of the data elements with at least one user developed source element.