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  1. questionOpening Pages in Edit Mode
    There are two ways to open a page into edit mode: Click the page you want to edit once and then click the “Open page” icon at the bottom of the screen. Right-click (pc) or ctrl+click (Mac) the page you want to edit and choose “Open page”. Depending on your browser, eith ...

  2. questionGato Page Properties
    At the top of the page in the editing window, you will find the following buttons: Preview - This allows you to view the page without the editing bars. This is how the webpage will appear when it is published. To take it out of preview mode, click the small green button in the upper left-hand c ...

  3. questionRich Editor Paragraph
    The rich editor is the most flexible paragraph choice. The interface is “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG), which is similar to word processing programs such as Microsoft Word. Text Formatting B Bold I Italic Eraser Align Text Left Align Text Center Align Te ...

  4. questionGato Text and Image Paragraph
    This paragraph allows you to display a header, text and one image. It only has basic formatting abilities. If you do not see editing option you would like to use, you may want to use the Rich Editor Paragraph instead. After entering text into the appropriate fields, click on the “ImageR ...

  5. questionGato Documents Paragraph
    Documents Paragraph The documents paragraph displays files stored in your DMS Documents folder that you can manage in AdminCentral. It automatically displays the files in a list with the icon, file name, subject, file type and size. To Display One File - After you click on “Internal link& ...

  6. questionGato Site Map Paragraph
    Site Map The site map creates an additional way for users to navigate your website, through a hierarchical list of pages. It is automatically updated as you add and remove pages from your website. You may add a title to your site map, but it is not required. Start level is at which level in yo ...

  7. questionGato Image Gallery
    Image Gallery The image gallery allows you to display a series of images as a photo gallery on your page. When you first choose this paragraph type, the only information to enter is the title. This is the title that will be displayed above your image gallery. Once you click save, you will see tw ...

  8. questionGato FAQ Paragraph
    FAQ Paragraph The FAQ paragraph allows you to show questions and answers with a “window shade” effect. This means that when the question is clicked on, the answer space is expanded inside of the page to display those answers. Enter your questions and answers one at a time using this ...

  9. questionCalendar Events Paragraph
    The calendar paragraph displays the information form the University's public events calendar located at http://events.txstate.edu Only departments with a calendar on that system will be able to display a calendar in Gato using the calendar events paragraph. Title The title field is optional. It ...

  10. questionCreating Online Forms
    What is an Online Form? An online forms let your users fill out information on a web page and then hit a submit button to send that information to you in an email message. Creating a Form To begin creating a new form, first create a new page in AdminCentral. Give this page a name and title. Doub ...

  11. questionRedirect Page
    What is a Redirect Page? A redirect page is a page that immediately sends someone to another page. This may be useful when you would like to move the location of your page without breaking the URL. To create a redirect page, you first have to change the template type in AdminCentral to “Re ...

  12. questionManual Editing in the Table Paragraph
    PLEASE NOTE: this method is for advanced users only, to be used when table formatting is continuously transferred incorrectly from a table editor, such as Microsoft Excel. It is not the recommended method for changing the table information. If a mistake is made using this method, you will have t ...

  13. questionGato Application Porthole
    Application Porthole The application porthole paragraph allows you to embed the content of another webpage within your Gato website. This is useful for giving other applications the “look and feel” of Gato. You may add a title. Enter the URL of the page that you would like to embed i ...

  14. questionPassword Protecting Pages
    In Gato-edit navigate to the page or section that you would like to have password protected. At the top of the page-editing window, you will find the Page Properties" button on the upper right corner. Click "Page Properties". Choose the "Advanced" tab. Check these boxes to require log-in to acc ...

  15. questionGato Display RSS Feed
    Display RSS Feed There is the ability to display an RSS feed using this paragraph. To display an RSS feed, place the feed URL into the box labeled “Feed URL”. To hide information on the feed from which articles are pulled, check the “Hide Feed Information” box. To display ...

  16. questionGato Department Directory
    Department Directory Department directory allows you to quickly and easily create a list of contact information for a department. This information is automatically updated based on the information in Human Resources and People Search. You may enter a title, but it is not required. Then choose yo ...

  17. questionGato Download Paragraph
    Download Paragraph The download paragraph is the recommended way to link to documents that are on your computer, but are not in your DMS for users of your website to download. It allows you to upload a document directly from your computer. It will automatically display the icon, file name, type ...

  18. questionGato Raw XHTML
    Raw XHTML The Raw XHTML paragraph allows experts to put XHTML directly into a page. This paragraph is not supported by the Gato team and is considered to be “use at your own risk”.

  19. questionGato Table Paragraph
    Table Paragraph The table paragraph allows you to insert data from a table editor such as Microsoft Excel and display it as a stylized table. To add table content, first highlight and copy the table cells in the program and then paste it into the table field by pressing ctrl+v. To use data from ...

  20. questionGato Sub-Pages Paragraph
    Sub-Pages The sub-pages paragraph displays the pages immediately below the one you are currently editing in your navigation hierarchy. “Levels” is how deep into your website hierarchy you wish to display on this page. To display the sub-pages of a page, set levels to 1, if you would ...

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