Chapter 18
Getting Started with Portals and Web Sites
In This Chapter
Mastering the basics of publishing sites
Creating and fixing your pages
Choosing or changing a page layout
Selecting the allowed page layouts for a site
Changing the master page of a site
Nowadays everyone expects their web sites to have a content management system. SharePoint users are no different. People don’t want to have to type their content in multiple places. They want to enter it once and reuse it throughout their site. That’s the role of a content management system, and that’s what SharePoint’s publishing sites do.
SharePoint’s publishing sites are very useful for creating portals and public-facing web sites. For internal portals, the business community often stands up portals with very little or no IT intervention. Common uses for internal portals include sites that aggregate users and content based on geography, business units, or business service. Business service portals are very popular for things ...
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