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SharePoint Designer Tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites

By : Mike Poole
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SharePoint Designer Tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites

By: Mike Poole

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
SharePoint Designer Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Other SharePoint Search Solutions


Apart from building our own search pages in SharePoint with the controls it provides, we can use solutions that Microsoft provides straight out of the box (or a couple of boxes, in fact).

Search Center

The most obvious of these search tools would be the Search Center that is built into the default SharePoint site.

By default, the Search Center is available at http://servername/searchcenter/ (e.g. http://olmec/searchcenter/). When we open up our default SharePoint site (e.g. http://olmec/), we can see the Search button on the menu bar that links to the Search Center.

One of the beauties of the Search Center is that we can edit the appearance and content of the page either with SharePoint Designer or by clicking on the Site Actions button in the top right-hand corner of the Search Center and selecting Edit Page.

The other great thing about the Search Center is that the scope of searches includes all SharePoint sites on the server. Many companies have separate...