In this recipe, we will create a custom master page that is branded for a public-facing SharePoint site. In addition, this master page will only show the page editing controls to those with contribute access to the SharePoint site.
To see the results of this recipe, you will need to be able to access the SharePoint site both anonymously and logged in.
Follow these steps to create a master page with editing controls only available to editors:
Open SharePoint Designer.
Select Open Site. Enter the complete URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.
Add a
PublicMasterPage.css
stylesheet file to theresources
folder located at_catalogs/masterpage/resources
.From the Navigation pane, select Master Pages.
In the list of files in the Master Pages library, make a copy of
seattle.master
(for our example, we have renamed itSeattle_PublicWebsite.master
).Check out the new
Seattle_PublicWebsite.master
master page.Open the...