Patent ID: 8634089

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for creating an electronic product design of a print item to be printed, the method comprising: presenting, on a display of a user computer, a plurality of product type images for viewing by the user of the user computer, the product type images representing a plurality of different types of products that can be printed, each product type image having associated therewith a product selection mechanism; in response to the user's selection of a product selection mechanism associated with one of the product type images, presenting, on a display of a user computer, a plurality of template images for viewing by the user of the user computer, the template images representing electronic product design templates for the selected product type, each template image having associated therewith a template selection mechanism; in response to the user's selection of a template selection mechanism associated with one of the template images, presenting on the user's display an editable product design template associated with the selected template image, the editable product design template being a partially completed electronic product design and comprising one or more user editable elements, providing one or more product design software tools, the tools being adapted to allow the user of the user computer to edit the one or more user editable elements of the editable product design template, and receiving edits to the editable product design template, the edits entered the user using one or more of the tools to incorporate user content into the one or more user editable elements of the editable product design template to create a custom electronic product design that can be printed to create a print item.