SharePoint 2013 Site Templates Training Videos for Beginner

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SharePoint 2013 Site Templates Training Videos
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Highlights

• Understanding Site Templates
• Creating custom site templates
• Comparison Site Definition Site Template
• Managing Site Definition with Master Pages
• Creating site based on custom site definition

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Understanding Site Templates

• Site template is a pre designed webpage file.
• Contains the similar type of data as list
  templates.
• site templates includes data for the total site.
• Site templates maintains the design information
  of a site like number of lists within a site, Web
  Part Pages, custom pages, document libraries.
• Do not includes security settings, Web Part Pages
  personalization's , Web discussions, Web part
  assemblies.

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Creating custom site templates

• Custom site templates can be created with the
  user interface or using object model.
• Creating custom site templates are as follows
• After creating SharePoint site, click on Site
  settings in the share point tab settings.
• Click on "Save site as template.
• Give a filename and a name to the site template
  and check "Include content" if you want to
  include the content of the site.
• The custom site template is created and available
  in the gallery of solutions from the parent site.

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Comparison Site Definition Site Template

• Site definition is a combination of multiple
  files.
• Ex .xml, .aspx, .ascx, and .master page, .gif ,
  .doc etc
• Site Templates are created from an existing site
  and are stored in Content database.
• Can download templates and use them other site
  collection to create a new site.
• Can create multiple site using single site
  template, and making changes in one site does not
  Impact other sites.
• Once site is created, developers can not apply
  the changes those if required.

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Comparison Site Definition Site Template

• Site definition solves the problem of site
  templates.
• Developers can apply the changes to the site even
  after its creation is completed.
• Each front end web server maintains a site
  definition file system.
• Advantages of site definitions are as follows
• Site data can be stored straightly on Web
  servers, so sites performance will be good.
• Some types of customization to sites or lists
  require use of site definitions.

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Managing Site Definition with Master Pages

• Master pages provides interface and layout of the
  pages on a Share point site. 
• master page displays the persistent elements to
  navigate one page to another page on SharePoint
  site.
• Master pages define the shared framing elements
  for all pages in your site.
• Page layouts define the layout for a specific
  class of pages.
• Pages are created from a page layout by authors
  who add content to page fields.
• Also defines regions called content placeholders.

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Creating a site on Custom Site Definition

• Creating a custom Site Definition is follows as
• Download or copy an existing Site Definition
  folder located in the  Local Drive \
  ProgramFiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web
  server extensions \12\ TEMPLATE \Site
  Templates\ directory.
• Create or copy WEBTEMP XML fragment file located
  in Local_Drive\Program Files\ Common
  Files\Microsoft Shared\web server
  extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\XML to register the
  site definition with SharePoint.

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Creating a site on Custom Site Definition

• Give the file a unique name by appending a string
  to the name of the original file.
• Customize the contents of the new WebTemp file.
• Each WebTemp.xml file contains a collection
  of Template elements and Configuration
  subelements.
• Create a site using the custom site definition.
  Follow the below steps to create a site
• Open Internet Explorer, navigate to a SharePoint
  site on the server where you performed the steps
  above.

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Creating a site on Custom Site Definition

• Click the Site Actions menu, Select New Site.
• Click the Custom Site Definitions tab on the left
  side of the create a site dialog to see the new
  site templates you registered with the SAMPLE
  site definition. 
• Select one of the sample site templates you
  created.
• Enter a title and URL and Click the Create button
  and your new SharePoint site is created.

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