Beginning SharePoint® Designer 2010

Chapter 3. The Anatomy of a SharePoint Page

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER

• The primary types of pages in SharePoint

• How SharePoint assembles pages

• How to edit a master page

• Major content placeholders in a SharePoint Master Page

SharePoint 2010 comes in two flavors, SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server. This chapter covers the pages found in SharePoint Foundation. The goal of this chapter is to give you the conceptual and technical fundamentals required to customize your SharePoint site. The assumption is that you have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and web development concepts.

HOW SHAREPOINT PAGES WORK

A basic understanding of SharePoint site architecture will help you understand the nuts and bolts of SharePoint pages. The entry point to a SharePoint site is a web application, which is the highest level "container" for sites and has common services and features available to all sites within it. Within a web application is at least one site collection. A site collection is a group of sites that share properties for managing content and user permissions. The top-level or root site within a site collection is where you manage many administrative functions and store common files used in all sub sites.

Figure 3-1 illustrates the site hierarchy in SharePoint and highlights the libraries discussed in this chapter. SharePoint pages can be stored in any document library.

Figure 3.1. Figure ...