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The visual editor is the tool that you will use to modify most of the content within your website. It is used for static page editing and many modules use a slight variation of it to edit the module content. It is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, and is the core of user-end of the CMS. Of all the things that you will learn with the Evolve-Amiro CMS, this is the most important.
- There are five options that are properties for every page in the site manager.
- Publish checkbox - If this is not checked, the page will not be viewable to the public. The only way to view the page will be through the site manager. This is good for 'turning off' pages that are not finished and shouldn't be seen by the public.
- Type of page - This determines the type of page that the page is. 'Static page (no module)' is used for static content pages where the content is not determined by a module. 'Redirect' is used to make the page redirect to a different page, either inside or outside the site. All others are module type pages that tie their functionality and content to a specific module.
- Version - This is the version list/option. As the page is modified, different subsequent versions are saved here, allowing you to return to a previous recent version of the page.
- Name - This is the name of the page, and is used for auto-generated titles and is also the label the site map uses.
- Link - This is the link to the page, not including the domain name, but including parent pages. For example, if a page named 'goo' should have a URL of 'www.yourpage.org/goo', then the link for the 'goo' would be 'goo'. If 'goo' is a subpage of 'moo' ('www.yourpage.org/moo'), the proper link would be 'moo/goo', which would have a resulting URL of 'www.yourpage.com/moo/goo'
- This is the page layout representation, which is also on every page in the site manager. Using the drop-down, you can select a specific page layout for the page you are viewing. By clicking on the actual sections of the layout, you can edit the contents of those sections.
- This allows you to switch between the visual editor and the page's options and navigation options.
- This is the visual editor, as detailed below.
 The visual editor can be logically divided up into two parts: the toolbar and the editing field. The toolbar is designed using the Microsoft standard, meaning that the buttons presented serve the same or very similar function as they would in Microsoft Word or any other Microsoft product. A brief description of each function can be found on the left.
The visual editor is operated using the same methods and ideas as Microsoft Word. You can copy/paste, stretch images by clicking and dragging their 'handle-bars', select text and apply properties, click a property and then add text that applies to that property, etc. The toolbar buttons also serve as indicators of the current format at the cursor position or of the selected text.
You can also use the standard style elements from the following list: "Normal Text", "Heading 1", "Heading 2", "Paragraph", "DIV", and "Preformatted Text".
Remember that changes are not saved 'on-the-fly', and as such, you will have to click the 'Apply' button in order to save any changes that you make. If there are unsaved changes, you will find the text '[ modified ]' in the upper right hand side of the title bar of the visual editor.
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