Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

802 Part IX: Maintaining a Server in Windows SharePoint Services
The personal view is detailed in Chapter 23, “Personalization Services in Share-
Point Products and Technologies”; this chapter will concentrate on the shared view.
Web Part Page Zones
Web Part Pages include a number of zones, and each zone can contain a number of
Web Parts. Although you can customize the basic layout of these Web Part Pages
using FrontPage 2003, the browser is a much more efficient way to add and remove
Web Parts from these zones because it offers easy drag-and-drop functionality of
Web Parts within zones and between zones. Web Parts can reside outside the zones;
these are called static Web Parts and cannot be customized using the browser.
To change the layout, the Web page must be in design view. Click Modify
Shared Page, and then click Design This Page. The page is redisplayed, and the
zones are now clearly visible. On a portal site, the word Edit will be placed before
the page name, as shown in Figure 30-2.
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Figure 30-2 Changing the layout of a portal site home page: four zones and two navigation bars
To perform a drag-and-drop operation, click the Web Part title bar so that a
cross with arrows appears, and then drag the Web Part to the desired location.
Each Web Part Page, zone, and Web Part has a number of attributes or properties
associated with it. Some Web Part properties can be customized using the
browser, and this is detailed in Chapter 31. Web Part Page and zone properties cannot
be edited using the browser, but their settings can affect what you can and cannot
do using the browser. For example, each zone has a property named
AllowPersonalization. If this property is set to False, Web Parts that are located in
that zone cannot be modified by individual users, and when all zones have this