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Make changes to your website whenever you want!

Our Gusto Toolkit has been used by clients who range from typical office computer users all the way to self-proclaimed "computer illiterates". The WYSIWYG feature of the Gusto Toolkit makes it easy for brokers or office assistants with only basic computer skills to create an effective and attractive website.

Most importantly... you can usually make changes yourself even faster than describing the change you want to your "web guy"!

What is WYSIWYG?

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) is a term that simply means that you can see your page and are able to change things directly on the page. The Gusto toolkit lets you edit text anywhere on the page and use the familiar word processing style tool bar for formatting text, inserting pictures that flow with the text, and creating tables for items that need to line up.

Traditionally, web page layouts included a vast number of layout commands to get things positioned exactly where they are needed. This is a very cumbersome way to control layout, and one that is best left to the experts.

The Gusto Toolkit has a simple approach - just drag around page elements and the toolkit will take care of building these complex layout commands.

The Gusto Toolkit gives you two views of your page:

The Edit Text tab lets you edit the content of any section. You just point, click, and type. Icons on the toolbar allow you to format your text, add images, and so forth. The page will grow and flow as you add text.
The Edit Layout tab lets you move elements around on the page. You can drag and drop them, size them and set properties such as background colors and borders.

Add a page - the menu gets updated!

Add a page to your website with the click of a button. Your custom website layout is carried over to your new page — you just add your text and images. Type a name for the page, and it is automatically added to your website's menu! Want your menu in a different order? Just drag the entry to where you want it, and the menu for your entire site is updated automatically.

Powerful Image Handling Capabilities

Images can be included in three ways with the Gusto Toolkit:

In Text - Inserted into text where they will flow along with the text.
In Boxes - Created as stand-alone elements that can be positioned anywhere in the layout.
As Albums - Uploaded in bulk or individually. They are automatically included in "Photo Album" web pages, creating as many pages as needed to display all images. Menus are created to help your visitors, and you get an automatic slide show. Captions can be created.

Today's digital cameras produce huge images. If left unprocessed, they can cause your site to load very slowly, making it effectively unusable for those outside the coverage area of high speed Internet. The Gusto Toolkit deals with these problems automatically.

First, we provide a simple desktop utility to upload batches of images directly from a digital camera directory. The images are scaled to a reasonable size before uploading so they upload very quickly and conserve your disk space on the server.
We store images at a moderate resolution so that detail will be preserved, no matter what size they end up being used on the web page.
We resample images after they are dragged to the correct size. What does this mean? We could describe the technology, or discuss how this provides for very crisp images... but a picture is worth 1000 words:

Consider these two images, shown at 200% of their published sizes:

The fuzzy image to the left was dragged to a smaller, using the resizing approach typically used by tools for "do it yourself" websites.

The clear one on the right was resized using the Gusto Toolkit, which uses high-quality image resampling. Notice the smoothness and crispness of the resampled image, and the rough edges and fuzzy solid areas of the image that was resized without resampling..