The purpose of the Gateway is to act as a glorified slide show for our
chapter information.
In general the Portal will have few images directly in it but sites it
references may in fact contain images whereas the Gateway will have at
least one image at the top of each page.
Now the main reason you need to know which you are in is because
navigation in the Portal is supported by the buttons on the top menu
or the links on the bottom of the page whereas navigation in the
Gateway will be supported several ways. The Gateway will have buttons
on the top and links on the bottom also. For the Gateway links are
also embedded in the image supporting next, previous, and index. Plus
the Gateway supports access keys. For instance when in the Gateway on
IE the combination (alt n enter) moves one to the next page where as
on Firefox the combination (shift alt n) causes such a move. Note: If
your browser (Opera is an example) supports header level navigation
links, the Gateway provides such links in most instances.
The user will have little ability to change the look and feel of the
Portal but in the future the user will be given the ability to select
his own look and feel of the Gateway.
The easiest way to know which your using as your outer most wrapper is
to look at the bottom of the page. The Portal will say Portal and the
Gateway will say Gateway. Moreover the Portal URL will end with .aspx
and the Gateway URL will end with .xml. If you see a big image at the
top and a single set of menus you are most likely in the Gateway.
The Portal URL is
The Portal URL for the Gateway is
http://arsmc.org/gateway_base.aspx
but you are in the Portal looking at the Gateway.
The Gateway URL is
http://arsmc.org/documents/gatewayentry.xml
If you have trouble opening the Gateway URL using IE right click on
the link and open it in a new window or a new tab.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
