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Essential SharePoint
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Essential SharePoint

by Jeff Webb
May 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
10h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Parts of a Page

Each SharePoint site has a home page named default.aspx. Different site templates create different home pages, as shown in Figure 1-7. These pages are made up of web parts—a web part is a type of custom control that contains a title bar, a frame, and content. Figure 1-9 indicates the web parts included in a document workspace.

Team, workspace, and meeting sites

Figure 1-7. Team, workspace, and meeting sites

Navigating between team and workspace sites

Figure 1-8. Navigating between team and workspace sites

Web parts on a home page

Figure 1-9. Web parts on a home page

Web parts appear on a web part page , which is a special type of page that contains zones where you can drag and drop web parts. The home page of each site is a web part page. Web parts often present data from lists within the site. In fact, all of the lists in a site show up as web parts when you create a new web part page, as shown in Figure 1-10.

Designing a web part page

Figure 1-10. Designing a web part page

I said that lists are tables of related data, but that doesn't really convey the importance of lists within SharePoint. Lists are used to organize and store Office documents, links, members, discussions, images, and all other types of ...

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