Page Layout Architecture

In working with and creating page layouts, it is important to understand how page layouts work in SharePoint Server 2010. This section introduces the various components and makeup associated with page layouts, including content types. To begin with, Figure 15.1 demonstrates the role of page layouts in SharePoint site collection.

Figure 15.1 Page layout architecture.

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To the left of the figure, the original versions of page layouts are deployed to the SharePoint 14 Hive on the Web front-end server during product installation. Each time you create a new SharePoint Server 2010 site collection, a copy of those page layouts ...

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