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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

Using Layers


Everything seems to have layers. Onions have layers, people have layers, and even donkeys have layers (according to Donkey in "Shrek", Dreamworks 2001). Web pages are no exception. We can add layers to our page to build it up in three dimensions. Content can be placed to overlap other content on our page.

We will take a moment to add a new layer to our page, which we will use to display a special offer of a fabulous revolutionary (pardon the pun) new corkscrew that customers get for free with any case of wine. By using layers to do this, we can position the special offer exactly where we would like it to appear on our page. Not only that, but using layers also allows us to display or hide the content whenever we wish.

  1. Select Format | Layers.

  2. This will display the Layers task pane.

  3. Click on the Insert Layer icon in the Layers task pane.

You will notice that two things happened when we did this. First of all, a new layer called layer1 was added to our empty list of layers in the...