Professional SharePoint® 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007

Chapter 8. Navigation

Every Web site, regardless of the underlying technology used to implement it, uses some sort of navigation. Properly implemented navigation makes a Web site usable and the content within the site findable. SharePoint sites are no different, including Publishing sites. Thankfully, not much is unique when it comes to navigation in sites based on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0, including Publishing sites, because SharePoint is completely dependent upon the navigation provider model included in ASP.NET 2.0.

This chapter explains what the ASP.NET 2.0 navigation provider model is and how SharePoint implements it. Also covered in this chapter are the various customization options available to site owners, administrators, developers, and designers. Because SharePoint is completely dependent upon the ASP.NET 2.0 navigation provider model, this chapter does not go into great depth about creating custom navigation components. Instead, readers are encouraged to review ASP.NET 2.0 documentation on this subject.