Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Creating New Master Pages

When you create new SharePoint master pages, you have several options available, including the following:

• Create a new master page based on one of the out-of-the-box SharePoint 2010 master pages: This is a good option if you’re relatively new to working with master pages or SharePoint master pages, or want to minimize the degree of effort required when creating new SharePoint master pages, because the out-of-the-box master pages, such as the v4.master page, include all of the necessary SharePoint controls and content placeholders for working with SharePoint content pages and managing the ribbon and dialog framework. They also include some formatting, such as DIVs and CSS layout, which you can change with minimal effort. ...