Setting the Site’s Home Page

You can use the Make Homepage command in the ribbon, shown in a Web part page in Figure 5.61, to easily set any page within a SharePoint 2010 site as the home, or default, page of the site.

Figure 5.61 The Make Homepage ribbon command on Web part pages.

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The same command is available in Wiki and publishing pages also (see Figure 5.62). In addition to the Make Homepage command, SharePoint Server 2010 publishing sites also include a Welcome page option, which is an alternative for defining the default (home) publishing page for a site. See the “Working with Publishing Pages (Page Layouts)” section later in this chapter. ...

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