The full guide

A quick orientation to the platform and how the pieces fit together.

What a self-service trial site is, what the banner means, and how to keep your site when the trial ends.

How to log in, and the fastest way to reach your own district’s settings.

The three roles in the system and what each one can do.

Why 2FA matters for a government-facing admin panel, and how to enroll.

Logo, colors, and the fields that make your public site look like your district.

Pick one of five color themes, and set whether your site opens in light or dark mode.

Five completely different page layouts — not just different colors — to pick from under Branding.

Set your stats, reorder the homepage sections, hide any you don’t want, and add your own.

Set a homepage background photo and control how readable text sits on top of it.

How your site appears in search results and what social links show in the footer.

Phone, email, address, and office hours shown across the public site.

Linking out to your existing property-search or GIS tool.

How the visual, block-based page editor works.

Rich Text, Heading, Button, Callout, Divider, and Accordion/FAQ.

Image, Image + Text, Image Gallery, Embed, and File download.

How Section and Columns blocks nest to build real multi-part pages.

Blocks that pull live records from your other tables — they update themselves.

See the real, on-brand page update as you edit — before you publish.

Page status, slugs, and adding a page to the site menu.

Put your own wording on the standard pages (Protests, Forms, Board, ARB, Data Downloads, and more) without starting from a blank page.

The pinned ticker and the notices feed — your fastest way to publish an announcement.

A public calendar of meetings and important dates, plus two pages for downloadable reports and legal-description records.

Keep your board roster current — shown on the public Board page and in Page Builder cards.

Publish your staff — photo, title, and contact details — as a card directory.

Board and ARB meetings, with the posting-time field the Texas Open Meetings Act requires.

Publish official Comptroller and district forms — organized by category.

One link directory that feeds two public pages, split automatically by type.

Publish open positions to the public Employment page.

Where every uploaded image and document lives, and how to find things fast.

Inviting colleagues and choosing the right role for them.

A read-only record of who changed what, and when.

Where every platform update is documented, automatically.

What the version number in the footer means.

What has to be true before a district’s site goes public.

A plain-language summary of what Texas law requires a CAD website to do — not legal advice.

Fixes for the issues staff run into most often.