Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 2 of 3): Extending WCM

Introduction to Extending WCM
Although Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a rich site definition for delivering an Internet presence and Web content management (WCM) infrastructure, most organizations discover the need to customize and extend the default capabilities. In Office SharePoint Server 2007, all of the WCM features and the underlying artifacts are highly extensible.

Understanding the Structure of Master Pages
Each page that a visitor sees in the browser when navigating to an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site is a combination of a master page and a published page based on a particular page layout (a template). The first article in this series (Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features) provides a general overview of master pages and page layouts. Let's go further in this article.

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