Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

852 Part IX: Maintaining a Server in Windows SharePoint Services
number for team members in a specific region. The ability to reuse data across your
website saves time and reduces errors because you no longer have to duplicate
information to use it in different places.
Browser-Based Customization
SharePoint Products and Technologies make updating sites and their content from
the browser easier than ever. As you learn to customize SharePoint sites, you will
become accustomed to editing some things from the browser and others from within
FrontPage 2003. Here is a brief list of the items you will probably continue to edit
from the browser even after you become proficient at customizing sites with
FrontPage 2003:
■ Creation of lists, document libraries, discussions, and surveys. Creation
of content Web Parts is most commonly done via the browser. You can create
content Web Parts from your site at http:///_layouts/1033/create.aspx.
■ List or document library contents. Adding and editing content contained
inside of Web Parts on the site is done via the browser. You can even edit content
in a datasheet view (such as a spreadsheet) to speed the editing of existing
content and the addition of new content.
■ Changing fields in lists, document libraries, discussions, and surveys. If
you want to add, reorder, remove, or add fields to lists or document libraries,
you can certainly do these things via the browser.
■ Personal views. SharePoint Products and Technologies users can alter the
shared view of a page that everyone sees to create views of a Web page that
only they can see. These personal views can include different or rearranged
Web Parts, and they do not have to include the Web Parts that everyone else
sees in the shared view. These personal views are created and managed in the
browser by each user.
How to Edit Sites in FrontPage 2003
Everything that can be done with SharePoint Products and Technologies from a
browser can also be done from within FrontPage 2003 and much more. There are
very strong capabilities in FrontPage 2003 that help the user avoid going back and
forth between the browser and FrontPage 2003 to customize a site. But, first we
need to get the site open in FrontPage 2003.
Opening a Site
Opening a site in FrontPage 2003 is easy. All you need is the Web address or URL of the
site you plan to edit, as well as a user name and password (if necessary) and sufficient
permissions to edit the site. Contact your server administrator if you have questions
about the website address or permissions to edit the site.