SharePoint For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6

Working with Web Pages and Web Parts

IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating new pages

Picking the right page design template

Using Web Parts to build pages

Using one Web Part to filter another

How many times have you heard, “We need the team to get on the same page?” Well, that’s not a problem if you’re using SharePoint. If you’re a facilitator, communicator, and/or have a creative streak, you need this chapter. Although SharePoint gives you a lot of helpful tools to work with content, the ability to communicate effectively with your team, starting with a customizable home page, pulls everything together.

Web pages and the components you can add to those pages called Web Parts let you arrange and present information in a collaboration site. Pages can display freeform text, tables, hyperlinks, and images, as well as Web Parts that show app content from your site (or other sites!) arranged as you want. Web Parts can be closed temporarily or moved. You can also modify Web Parts to show only the data you want from an app. You can inform, organize, and focus your team with your pages, something ...