November 2010
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454 pages
15h 15m
English
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Professional SharePoint® 2010 Branding and User Interface Design
by Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, Larry Riemann
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CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS SHAREPOINT BRANDING?
To continue with the house analogy we’ve used throughout the chapter, imagine a room with furni-
ture in it — perhaps a couch and a few chairs and tables. The room would be similar in concept to a
page in SharePoint; the pieces of furniture would be the various fi elds on the page. Applying a new
page layout would be similar to rearranging the furniture in the room. The room is still the same
and the pieces of furniture are still the same, but they are laid out differently and ultimately have a
different look and feel.
Several out-of-the-box page layouts can be used right away in a SharePoint Server site, but also
remember that designers and developers can always create their own custom page layouts. For
example, when a user creates a new page in SharePoint Server, the same content can be arranged as
a news article or as a welcome page, based on the page layout that is selected.
Figure 1-11 shows the relationship between master pages and page layouts.
Page Layout Master Page Master Page
Response:
Page Layout
Page
Web
Request:
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FIGURE 1-11
Chapter 9 discusses page layouts in greater detail.
Along with defi ning how content is arranged on a page, page layouts also defi ne the location of edit-
able fi elds and Web Parts. Web Parts, which can be thought of as self-contained widgets of functional-
ity, can be arranged in pages through the use of Web P ...
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