Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technology

SharePoint is involved to help you understand the capabilities of the product, as well as offer tips and tricks, growth ideas, information from Microsoft, information from the community, and perhaps some samples.It will accept how-to articles that can help you with your deployments; ways to customize a page; deployment scenarios; and content management.
SharePoint Designer
The beginning point for most discussions about branding is SharePoint Designer. SharePoint Designer is the preeminent editor for SharePoint and can handle editing the master page, page layouts, and pages themselves. The master pages, ASP.NET Master Pages to be more specific are the master layout for the page. The content from a page layout which is used in web content management, or a page drops in to placeholders in the master page. Page layouts further contain content from the items they are associated with but otherwise are edited the same way that regular pages are.
Certainly that is not a bad capabilities list. There's some pages that SharePoint Designer cannot alter. It cannot alter any of the "application" pages. Those are the pages that exist in the _layouts directory. This can be an issue because a quantity of the pages that users see -- such as upload file, and view all site content, come from this directory.
SharePoint Designer is as well as a great editor for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) both from the context of editing your own CSS sheets in a site as well as for editing the CSS sheets that are essential to themes.
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The challenge with SharePoint Designer is that the changes apply only to the site collection, site, and page that SharePoint Designer is editing. That is great if you need to customize the look of one site -- but what if you need the look and feel to apply to multiple sites?
Understanding the SharePoint, ASP.NET Relationship
Unless you have been living under a sizable rock you have probably heard about this thing called Microsoft SharePoint. & like Chicken Tiny, people in the SharePoint community are jogging around saying that the finish is coming.
While there is a great deal of power that SharePoint offers it doesn't mean that you won't be writing in ASP.NET (define) any longer -- the contrary, SharePoint is a well behaved ASP.NET 2.0 application itself -- at least in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 timeframe anyway. That being said, there's some differences when it comes to developing with SharePoint that the ASP.NET developer should be aware of. Here are a quantity of them: