System and method for guiding non-technical people in using web services

A system for guiding a user to operate simplified computing operations for common web services activities via a web service interface standard to the web service itself, the system comprising:

• a computer readable medium having executable instructions stored thereon;
• and
• a processing device, in response to the executable instructions, operative to:
• recognize a user's activity with the web service;
• provide a first interface to the user for performing an operation relating to the web service, where the first interface is different from the web service interface associated with the web service and the first interface includes a plurality of graphical elements;
• receive user input commands via the first interface;
• translate the user input commands into a format usable by the web service;
• provide the translated input commands to the web service to bypass existing web service input commands provided by the web service interface;
• receive an output from the web service in response to the translated input commands;
• and
• translate the output for display via the first interface.