Chapter 3. Using Sites and Pages

In this Chapter

Designing your portal structure
Defining sites and site collections
Using site templates
Using pages and page libraries
Implementing navigation

Aportal is based on the building blocks of sites and publishing page libraries. These key elements make it possible for SharePoint users to collaborate, publish content, and find content. This chapter shows you how to plan the structure of how sites make up your portal and design the navigation of your sites. In addition, we review the functionality provided by SharePoint sites and site templates. We show you step by step how to create your own site templates so that you can reuse site functionality and structure that you have designed for your organizational needs.

Page layouts are a Web content management feature that allow you to design the layout for a page. This layout is stored separately from the content of the page so that you can centrally update page layouts without having to modify each page that is using the layout. We describe this functionality in detail and provide the steps to show you how to customize this powerful functionality.

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