Chapter 8. Master Pages and Layouts

You can use SharePoint Designer, together with the SharePoint site management functions accessible through the browser, to create publishing pages that take advantage of web content management (WCM) concepts in SharePoint to streamline management of content. This chapter shows you how to incorporate the WCM features in SharePoint Server 2007. In particular, this chapter examines:

  • What WCM provides in SharePoint.

  • The components needed to build publishing pages.

  • Creating Master Pages.

  • Building page layouts and the underlying content type.

  • Constructing publishing pages.

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