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804 Part IX: Maintaining a Server in Windows SharePoint Services
create a website based on the Social Meeting site template, you will see Home, Discussion,
and Photos Web Part Pages, each of which consist of three zones—left, center,
and right. You can create Web Part Pages that can contain many zones; however, using
a browser you cannot add or delete zones on a Web Part Page. You will need to use a
tool, such as FrontPage 2003. See Chapter 32, “Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
to Customize Windows SharePoint Services Sites,” for details on how to do this.
Web Part Page Creation
The browser is the best tool for adding new Web Part Pages. Web Part Pages can be
added to form part of a site’s navigation design, added as an item to a document
library, or created when you create a list or a library or you add a view to that list
or library.
Adding Navigation Web Pages
On a portal site, when you add an area, subarea, or topic, you are adding a Web Part
Page to the site. As stated earlier, all area Web Part Pages that have been created for
you when you create a portal site or areas that you created using the default area
templates cannot be personalized by users. The other zone properties set by default
allow users to add, remove, resize, and move Web Parts and allow users to change
Web Part settings for all users if the user has the necessary rights, unless the settings
on the individual Web Parts override these. Zone properties can be altered by using
a tool such as FrontPage 2003.
For Windows SharePoint Services sites based on the default workspace site
templates, Social Meeting, Decision Meeting, Blank Meeting, and Basic Meeting,
click Modify This Workspace in the upper-right corner, and then click Add Pages.
Type the page name, and then click Add. This will add a three-zone page to your
website. To manage or delete these Web Pages, click Modify This Workspace, and
then click Manage Pages. A tool pane will be displayed, and the Web Part Page is
displayed in design mode. Click the down arrow to reorder, add further pages, and
delete or alter the settings, such as the page name of the site’s Web page. Remember
that you cannot alter the page name of the home page for these sites through the
browser. Click OK, Cancel, or the Close button in the upper-right corner of the tool
pane to close it. These sites do not have a personalized view.
Using the browser, you cannot add or customize the navigation Web Part Pages
for the websites created from the other default site templates—that is, Team Site,
Document Workspace, Multipage Meeting, and the Blank Site templates. Using the
browser, you can customize only zones and Web Parts on the Home Web Part Page
for these sites. The navigation Web Part Pages for these sites are: spsviewlsts.aspx on
portal sites and viewlsts.aspx on the website for the Documents And Lists page;
spscreate.aspx on portal sites and create.aspx on websites for the Create page; and
default.aspx or settings.aspx for the Site Settings page. These Web Part Pages are
stored in the virtual directory, as follows: