Patent ID: 7634549

Claim:
A method of automating updates to Internet-based websites, comprising: receiving a proposed update to an Internet-based website for review by a triage team via a website update automation web page, wherein the triage team comprises a plurality of participating groups, wherein, after the proposed update is received for review by a first participating group in the plurality of participating groups, automatically forwarding the proposed update to a next logical participating group in the plurality of participating groups to review the proposed update; automatically uploading the proposed update to a test website for testing the proposed update; electronically notifying a website tester to test a deployment of the proposed update to the test website; automatically uploading the proposed update to a live website; electronically notifying a website tester to test the deployment of the proposed update to the live website; and receiving at least one approval of the deployment of the proposed update to the live website, wherein the proposed update is received, uploaded to the live website, and uploaded to the test website only for at least one of a spelling error and a grammatical error which affects only the presentation of the live website, wherein at any point during the step of automatically forwarding the proposed update to a next logical participating group in the plurality of participating groups, current job state information, project owner identity information, deployment issue information, the at least one of a spelling error and a grammatical error, and an actual copy of the proposed update are immediately obtained for review by a member of any of the plurality of participating groups upon selecting the website update automation web page.