When you created the Q1 Results page in the Press Releases site, you filled in the Title and Page Content on what is known as a Publishing Page Layout called the Article Page. This is the most generic type of page layout for SharePoint 2010 WCM.
However, just like a web form, you can extend the Article Page Layout by adding additional fields! This task is accomplished by using SharePoint Designer 2010.
In this recipe, we want to add a Proposals section to our website, where we can provide a web page that gives an overview and more information about a particular proposal, and then a link to the proposal itself. When filling out the web page, similar metadata should be specified, such as the proposal type, client, and amount. In order to accomplish this, we will be creating a custom Publishing Page Layout for our proposals.
Since everything in SharePoint is based on a content type, you should perhaps not be surprised that, when we go to create our own custom page...