SharePoint Office Pocket Guide

Parts of a Page

Each SharePoint site has a home page named default.aspx. Different site templates create different home pages, as was shown in Figure 1-3. These pages are made up of web parts—a web part is a type of custom control that contains a titlebar, a frame, and content. Figure 1-5 indicates the web parts included in a document workspace.

Figure 1-5. Web parts on a home page

Web parts appear on web part pages, which are special types of pages that contain zones where you can drag and drop web parts. The home page of each site is a web part page.

Often, web parts present data from lists within the site. In fact, all the lists in a site show up as web parts when you create a new web part page, as shown in Figure 1-6.

Figure 1-6. Designing a web part page

Lists are tables of related data, but that doesn't really convey the importance of lists within SharePoint. Lists are used to organize and store Office documents, links, members, discussions, images, and all other types of content in SharePoint.

SharePoint includes a set of list templates for the most common tables, which are categorized and described by task in Table 1-2.

Table 1-2. Types of lists

Category	List template	Use to
Team projects	Announcements	Post messages on the home page of your site.
	Contacts	Share information about people that ...