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Creating Basic Pages in a SharePoint Site

SharePoint does not function like a typical web server. Instead of HTML pages, SharePoint utilizes Active Server Pages (.aspx) by default. These types of pages are created in a SharePoint site as Basic and/or Web Part Pages.

Basic Pages and Web Part Pages are pieces of content created and stored in SharePoint document libraries. Although relatively straightforward, this concept takes a while to get used to. Because nearly all SharePoint data is stored in a SQL database, this is the method the SharePoint developers chose for displaying this type of content. So, in a nutshell, if you need to add a simple basic web page to a SharePoint site, you will need to add it to an existing document library and then ...