A Qualitative Approach for Representation of Templates and Portfolios with User Accessible Environment

Personification of the present disclosure can be viewed as providing methods for creating a web site. In this respect, one embodiment includes the following steps: receiving a choice of a design template to be used in creating the website, the design template providing an initial layout for pages of the website and recommended content, rendering for display a representation of the website from the design template in a development environment, wherein the representation provides controls for editing content and layout of the website representation and the rendering produces HTML files that are displayed to a user and enabling the user to edit design features of the website based upon a rendered view of the website in the development environment, a presently displayed representation of a web page having editing tools embedded in the web page. Preferably, models conform to various types of web pages and other features that are typically found or visible on websites. There may be different options for each feature. The innovation is to provide a platform for making it easy to build websites and pages based on stored templates that enable the website and pages to be modified and configured without the user needing to write any software code.