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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

Creating a New Site


Let us proceed and build our first page. We could just create a page straight away, but because we would like to publish our page to the SharePoint server, once we have done so, we will create a new site, which we will call "hello world". To create a new site, follow these steps:

  1. From the menu bar in SharePoint Designer, select File | New | Web Site.

  2. Select Empty Web Site from the list of possible pages.

  3. We can store our local version of the site anywhere we wish on our computer or network. For now on, we will use the default location inside My Documents because it is as good a place as any. Give your new site a new folder within the My Web Sites folder (e.g., C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Documents\My Web Sites\hello world).

  4. Click OK.

Note

Note that during this process, we created a new folder for our hello world site. This is important because usually we will create more than one website on our computer. Having our sites in different folders helps keep things tidy (and as you...