There are several advantages that using the CMS provides:

• You can manage your website without having to know HTML, CSS, Javascript, ASP, PHP, etc.
• You get the Texas State look and feel without any extra effort.
• Your website will be hosted on our high-availability servers.
• It's easier to have multiple people contributing to your site without stepping on each other's toes.
• The CMS helps minimize the chance of "page not found" and other errors.

• A user-friendly and Microsoft Word-like environment for content editing.
• Support for photo galleries.
• A self-updating department directory.
• Support for streaming media (video and sound).
• On-the-fly editable navigation.
• A standard information architecture which can be modified to suit your needs.
• Valid XHTML, which helps make your site accessible for people using screen readers or other assistive technologies.
• Secure, redundant hosting for consistent public display of your website.
• A document management system to allow online management and display of website files (pdf, word, excel, etc)
• And much more...

We've designed the system to create sites compatible with the latest versions of the modern web browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. Further, the sites should be usable with many older browsers as well, though the display of data may not always be optimal.

Official support of the Netscape browser has been discontinued. AOL is now recommending that Netscape download Firefox. For more information about this, please visit http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/.

Currently, the Gato system is only for college, academic department, center, institute and non-academic service and administrative department's web sites. At the present time we are not able to accommodate student organizations, personal or instructional sites. 

Chartered Student Organizations can host sites in Gato, although the request must come from the Charter sponsor orgnanzation.

Yes, absolutely. Gato training doesn't teach you to do HTML or CSS. It teaches you how to use the specific content management system we've installed. You'll learn what the different interfaces allow you to do, what options are available (and what are not), as well as "gotchas" to keep in mind when developing in the system in order to avoid problems and delays.

• The first place to go for information is this site, where we'll be providing documentation and other information on how to best utilize the CMS.
  
• Next, consider signing up for one of our many Training Classes.
• Finally, you can always send a request for help to gato@txstate.edu, where one of our support team will tend to it promptly.

In the main page properties, click on the "Banner Images" tab. Where it says "Link" you may enter a full external URL or click "Internal Link" to link to a page within your website.

There is a new tool in the text editor at the top right corner of the toolbar that is a blue square. When you click this, the editor window will become full screen. To return from full screen mode, click the button again.

The DMS will be made available to all Gato sites the week of March 24th.

The Gato Document Management System (DMS) will allow you to easily upload, manage and share documents throughout your Gato website. Like the Gato content management system, the DMS is designed to be easy to use. It works very much like the rest of Gato, with document management taking place in Admin Central and display of documents taking place through Gato Edit and the Documents paragraph type.

Once a document is contained in the DMS, you can display it on various web pages throughout your website. When you update the document, your web pages will be updated automatically. Using the Documents paragraph type you will be able to choose a folder in your DMS and display all, or selected files, contained therein.

In AdminCentral on the left-hand bar, you will see 2 options: Website and Documents. If you click on documents, it will display your Documents folder. This is where you can add, remove and update files.

To upload a single document, click on "New Document" at the bottom of the page. This option is also on the right-click (control-click on Mac) menu. A new window will open. The "browse" button will allow you to choose the file on your computer to upload. Directly below that, you can change the file name if you so desire. The "Subject" line will be displayed on your page, so you may want to enter a short title. The "Description" field is not currently displayed on the page, but may be used for internal information.

To upload multiple documents, see "Can I upload multiple files at once to the DMS?"

Yes, you can upload multiple files by putting them into a compressed .zip file. The hierarchy of your folders will be maintained once uploaded. To upload your .zip file, choose a folder to right-click (control-click for a Mac) and choose "Upload Zipfile".

By double-clicking the document or choosing "Edit Document", you will see an "Upload a New Version" button. This removes the current file, the window refreshes and you can upload the new version by choosing "browse".

To remove a document from being displayed on your page, but keep it in the DMS you can De-activate it. There is a deactivate button located on the bottom of the screen and also in the right-click (control-click on Mac) menu.
To delete a document entirely, you can use the delete option instead of deactivate. Make sure that the correct document or folder is highlighted when you do this.

We recommend keeping individual files under 50mb. Files over 50mb often have timeout problems and do not upload/download successfully. Gato websites have no size restrictions. If you need to display files over 50mb please email gato@txstate.edu for assistance.

Yes, you have to activate documents to make them available on your website, just like you do for pages. There is an activate button at the bottom of the screen and also in the right-click (control click on Mac) menu.

While in edit mode of a page, choose "New Paragraph" and then from the list of paragraph types choose "Documents". Click on the "Internal Link" button and you will be able to select files from the DMS. To display a single document, highlight that document and click OK. To display an entire folder of documents, highlight the folder and click OK.

Yes, you can display all files of one particular type. While editing the Document paragraph, in the "File Type" field, type the extension of the files you would like to display. For example, to display all PDF files, enter "pdf". This is currently case sensitive.  If you had files named file1.PDF, file2.pdf and file3.PdF, if you entered "PDF" in this field, only file1.PDF would display. You cannot currently show multiple specific file types. To display files of more than one file type, you have to display the entire folder.

First, make sure that you have activated all pages and documents properly. If there is a yellow circle instead of a green triangle for the status of your document or page, changes have been made that have not been activated. There is also about a 5 minute delay between any changes in AdminCentral and the DMS Central and your public website.