Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 in 10 Minutes

Basic Web Part Components

In Lesson 1, “Introduction to SharePoint 2003,” we looked at the main components of a SharePoint site, and a brief description was given of the different items you will see in a default team site. It was pointed out that a number of the items on the screen were actually Web Parts (Announcements, Events, Links, and the Windows SharePoint Services image).

In Figure 4.2 we see the same ProServices department team website shown previously.

Figure 4.2. Web Part components.

[View full size image]

From a functional standpoint, the Web Parts as they appear on the home page have several components, which are labeled in the figure ...