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SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Vanessa L. Williams
July 2012
Beginner
504 pages
10h 54m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 18

Getting Started with Portals and Web Sites

In This Chapter

arrow Mastering the basics of publishing sites

arrow Creating and fixing your pages

arrow Choosing or changing a page layout

arrow Selecting the allowed page layouts for a site

arrow 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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