Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but when it comes to the Internet, there are certain standards that must be met for your Authentic Voice to ring loud. Certain tools are expected and required and others are really nice to have. GATE Village provides all of the tools you could want to personalize your site and bring the beauty forward for all to see. 

1. Themes -- GATE Village supports a growing number of distinctive themes that many Village Roles can choose from. One good example of a theme well on it's way to being complete is RANT Computing
   
2. CSS -- Cascading Style Sheets are supported to either augment the Village tools, features and functions or to take over the entire page as many of our Business Account holders have done
3. Inline <style> statements -- our WYSIWYG editors make content creation easy and yet very complete. The more you know or learn the more functionality we have to provide.
   

MENU

It is pretty difficult to create a web site that people want to visit without providing a lot of assistance in the form of navigational links into your site. Whether the standard "About Us", "Contact", and "Privacy Policy" or product lists, customer support links, shopping cart or any other area, MENUs help to guide your audience to where both you and they want to be. 

GATE Village provides a large number of options for creating MENUs into the Village content and we've created a page that shows 11 separate examples of the GATE Village Services menu. That is really only a taste, the sky and your imagination are the only limits to making and using MENUs in GATE Village.

TAB

MENUs may well lead you to content but the content are most often displayed using TABs. While it may not be obvious, one of the most difficult things to do in web design is to provide the content in a way that keeps the viewer engaged and reasonably happy to be reading your web page. Every time a user clicks on a URL you have the potential to lose them to the larger Internet. If you can keep them there and bring the content to them then you have a better chance to keep them around. This is especially true if you have a lot of content to share.

THe link above provides a good overview of some of the possibilities of for tabbed content available in GATE Village. We do want to warn you, however, that is a ridiculously large page and it may take some time to load.