Website image carousel generation

摘要

A website construction tool allows website construction via an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) using containers and modules defining predetermined website constructs from a robust assortment of common and popular rendering formats and content source definition for individual webpages, and arranges the individual pages for navigation. A user selects from the predefined constructs by selecting modules for generating code, corresponding to the desired content, source and rendering format. Pointing device positioning locates the on-screen location by generating a container dedicated to the desired content. Webpage structure, or page flow, is generated by insertion of navigation controls and page insertions for navigating between pages in the deployed site, The predetermined constructs, therefore, provide templates of complex rendering formats allowing for content insertion without burdening the user with development of the constructs so rendered. Constructed websites may be hosted by the development entity, further relieving the user from website maintenance.

主权项

1. In a website construction tool, a method for generating window based content for insertion in the website comprising:
receiving, from a plurality of modules corresponding to types of window based screen elements, a selection of a carousel module for defining a carousel container responsive to a set of screen elements arranged in an iterative rotation, each of the screen elements being an image container responsive to a content source for rendering content items; populating, based on a received command, each of the screen elements from the content source; and rendering each of the screen elements according to an ordered sequence, the ordered sequence displaying a portion of each successive and previous screen element responsive to commands for advancing the ordering; the carousel container arranging a plurality of image containers in a visually uniform appearance, the carousel container displaying the image containers in a horizontal plane perspective according to a sequence, the sequence rendering at least a portion of a current image container simultaneously with at least a portion of a successive image container, further comprising: rendering the successive image container in entirety as the current element advances beyond a visual rendering area; and rendering the successive image container as the current image container in anticipation of a subsequent command to advance the carousel.