Testing Out Of The Box (OOTB) SharePoint Templates

These site templates should be created and tested against your design to make sure that all of the standard layouts, features, and functionality will still work with your custom design.

Publishing Site Template

Publishing site templates differ from other site templates in that they utilize the publishing infrastructure feature. The site owner can use this site collection and site feature to create pages with different page layouts. It also allows the site owner to add to the page unique web parts such as the content query web part and summary links web parts. Both of these web parts have unique display styles that you can modify to match the look and feel of your design. Publishing pages include ...

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