November 2010
Beginner
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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Page Layouts
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
An overview of how page layouts work in SharePoint Server
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publishing sites
Using page layouts to style publishing pages
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How page layouts are related to content types and site columns
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Creating custom content types to use with page layouts
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Creating both simple and complex custom page layouts
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Page layouts, fi rst introduced with Microsoft Offi ce SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), enable
publishing sites to have another level of templating beyond just master pages. Page layouts are
critical to web content management because they enable content authors to create pages with
specifi c editable fi elds and pre-defi ned HTML for content arrangement. Because page layouts
work hand-in-hand with master pages, designers and developers should have a strong under-
standing of both to fully appreciate how page layouts are used in SharePoint.
In many ways, page layouts have changed only in minor ways for SharePoint 2010; however,
the topic is still critical for understanding the power of SharePoint publishing. This chapter
focuses on providing a deep understanding of how page layouts work and how you can cre-
ate your own page layouts for use in SharePoint 2010. To follow along with the examples in
the chapter, you will need to have SharePoint Server 2010; SharePoint Foundation does not
include the capability to use page layouts. At the end of the chapter, you wi ...
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