If you’ve ever customized a large enterprise site, you know that creating and deploying a professional, functional, and consistent design can be a challenge. You need a way to create a look and feel that reinforces the brand of your organization and at the same time, make it easy to navigate and use by site visitors, including customers, partners, and employees.
Getting the design right is the first part of the challenge. Implementing and maintaining the design across an entire organization can be an even bigger challenge for a number of reasons. You need to maintain the brand for different types of sites and pages. At the same time, you need to allow for a full range of interactivity and functionality on the site. And you need to be able to enforce the brand even on newly-created sites and pages. SharePoint sites in particular can be challenging because of the range of sites, dynamic content, rich application-like functionality, and of course, the ease with which users can add new sites, pages, lists, and even integration with other sites.
To help you manage this, you use a SharePoint master page to store the structure, common elements, and design of the site. After you implement the design here, every content page associated with the master page instantly displays the new look and feel. This includes site pages, wiki pages, and administrative pages.
Note There are some pages associated with different master pages, including pages on a Search Center and pages on a publishing-enabled site. For these pages, you might implement the same brand or come up with a variation of your brand.
When all the content pages display the design from the master page, your sites are easier to use and navigate for end users. Your organization can continue to grow and expand its sites and pages without confusing users and sending them to the wrong location.
Note If you do need multiple master pages in your organization, you can use them by enabling master page editing for certain users at the web application or site collection level and then allowing multiple sets of master pages in your organization.
Getting the design right is the first part of the challenge. Implementing and maintaining the design across an entire organization can be an even bigger challenge for a number of reasons. You need to maintain the brand for different types of sites and pages. At the same time, you need to allow for a full range of interactivity and functionality on the site. And you need to be able to enforce the brand even on newly-created sites and pages. SharePoint sites in particular can be challenging because of the range of sites, dynamic content, rich application-like functionality, and of course, the ease with which users can add new sites, pages, lists, and even integration with other sites.
To help you manage this, you use a SharePoint master page to store the structure, common elements, and design of the site. After you implement the design here, every content page associated with the master page instantly displays the new look and feel. This includes site pages, wiki pages, and administrative pages.
Note There are some pages associated with different master pages, including pages on a Search Center and pages on a publishing-enabled site. For these pages, you might implement the same brand or come up with a variation of your brand.
When all the content pages display the design from the master page, your sites are easier to use and navigate for end users. Your organization can continue to grow and expand its sites and pages without confusing users and sending them to the wrong location.
Note If you do need multiple master pages in your organization, you can use them by enabling master page editing for certain users at the web application or site collection level and then allowing multiple sets of master pages in your organization.
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