3.3. Summary
This chapter showed you that SharePoint provides an array of tools to make many aspects of web administration much easier, and therefore possible even for people without server or network configuration experience. Once a SharePoint farm is initially configured, almost everything can be controlled through a web interface that is itself based upon SharePoint. You also learned:
SharePoint provides built-in navigation controls, galleries for templates and Master Pages, and easy tools for site owners to customize them.
There is a great difference between the way a final SharePoint site looks to a user and how it is actually assembled on the server.
SharePoint databases need to be understood, but are nothing to be trifled with.
The next chapter shows you how all of these elements are brought together inside of SharePoint Designer, and gives you your first taste of actually modifying a SharePoint site.
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