Method and apparatus for creating printed documents and internet web pages

A digital document transformation system, comprising:

• a computer network;
• a network-attached computing device comprising:
• a document creation and editing module for simultaneously creating a print document that can be sent directly to a print device for printing and a Web page that can be published to a Web site;
• a kit creation module for creating a custom sales kit, wherein the custom sales kit includes a cover letter and pre-defined documents arranged in a user-defined order;
• and
• a Web site providing a user interface to the document creation and editing module and the kit creation module, wherein the user interface facilitates selection of a print document template from a plurality of print document templates and a Web page template from a plurality of Web page templates and input of content information for simultaneously completing the selected print document and Web page templates such that the document creation and editing module simultaneously creates the print document and the Web page with the same content information;
• a first storage device connected to the computer network for storing information associated with the document creation and editing module and the kit creation module;
• a sign-on module connected to the computer network for controlling user access to the digital document transformation system;
• and
• a second storage device connected to the computer network for storing user information.

A computer readable medium encoded with a document creation and editing program for causing a computer in communication with a computer network and a storage device to execute the steps of:

• providing an interface for placing an order, the interface facilitating selection of a print format template and a Web page format template from among a plurality of document templates and input of content information that can be used to simultaneously create a print document according to the selected print format template and a Web page that can be published to a Web site according to the selected Web page format template such that the simultaneously created print document and Web page contain the same content information;
• storing the content information, the print document, and the Web page in the storage device;
• and
• displaying the print document and the Web page on the interface;
• Wherein the interface further allows for different parties to preview, modify, and approve the content information for simultaneously creating the print document and the Web page.