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398 Chapter 11 Working with Master Pages<br />

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Master pages maintain a consistent look and feel for all the pages on your site.<br />

They combine the layout of a master page with the content from a content page,<br />

allowing common features to be shared among many pages on a site.<br />

Master pages have the same basic structure as normal pages, but their file names<br />

use the extension .master instead of .aspx.<br />

Use master pages to control the general layout of pages, and use cascading style<br />

sheets to apply common styles to elements on each page on a site.<br />

SharePoint Foundation provides a global default master page called v4.master.<br />

This master page defines the base look and feel for site pages and _layouts pages,<br />

which was formerly controlled by the separate application.master.<br />

SharePoint 2010 includes an out-of-the-box master page called minimal.master.<br />

This page is used for Office Web Application interaction with SharePoint and for<br />

pages created on a site based on the Search Center site template.<br />

SharePoint 2010 includes a version of default.master that is based on the default<br />

master page used on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007<br />

installations. This page makes for an easy upgrade because the content can be upgraded<br />

separately from the new SharePoint user interface.<br />

Meeting workspaces have their own special master pages.<br />

SharePoint Server provides the same master pages as SharePoint Foundation plus a<br />

number of custom master pages for publishing sites.<br />

When you save any of the built-in master pages by using SharePoint Designer, you<br />

create customized pages.<br />

Much of the functionality of a master page is provided by ASP.NET or SharePoint<br />

controls.<br />

Content placeholders, also known in SharePoint Designer as content regions, specify<br />

where content from content pages should be placed on the master page. They also<br />

define content on the master page that can be modified or deleted on content<br />

pages.<br />

Modify the v4.master page if it already meets most of your needs.

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