When Central Configuration is enabled, some of the properties that are usually managed via the Sites & Lists tab are managed instead by the entries in the Central Configuration List. As a result, those properties will be grayed out (unavailable).
This is because you do not have the same rights as someone else. You can only see the sites that you have permission to access.
The WVA can be placed onto a page in the same manner as all CorasWorks web parts. If you are trying to place a web part onto a page, but there aren’t any zones or there isn’t a zone where you want it, you will need to edit the page and add the zone in SharePoint Designer. For more information regarding usage of the Workplace Viewer Advanced, check out the Navigation Web Parts Quick Start.
Microsoft's SharePoint Template uses the Site Description as a way of saying what the site is to be used for. It places the Site Description onto the site's home page, typically under the yellow line.
SharePoint sites are dynamic. They are meant to change as users need them to, so a site may change focus entirely, or it can be repurposed. Sometimes when an administrator creates a sub-site, the user doesn't know exactly what the site will be used for.
The Site Description information is not used with the CorasWorks site templates. This is due to a fundamental difference between our site templates and most of Microsoft's. Microsoft's SharePoint templates tend to be focused on a single page. The list information is on the left and the views into the lists are on the one page. CorasWorks site templates feature multiple pages, allowing different ways of organizing information.
To offset this, CorasWorks has placed the site description in the Workplace View Advance (WVA). The WVA uses the Site Description as a “tool tip” that appears when a mouse pointer hovers over a site link.