How to Customize a SharePoint Site?

SharePoint site is used for online collaboration. SharePoint site is useful when you want to collaborate across projects in the following ways: sharing and retaining versions of documents, scheduling, handling presence and messaging, delegating and sharing tasks, sharing and targeting information, managing meetings etc. Create areas when you want to publish information such as the following: aggregated listings, target audiences, document posting, content for publishing, navigational taxonomy, profiles, lists, news, managed spaces for users, areas of subject expertise, community interests, subsites for a categorized set of documents.

With the help of SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services, you can integrate SharePoint sites and areas to create custom environments that target a particular interest group. SharePoint site helps to create a complete view of your business. You can be more productive by having immediate excess to the relevant information. It shares knowledge across the organization. Organization can be benefited by finding and making the most of its intellectual capital. SharePoint takes benefit of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) sites to create portal pages for storing data in organizations. The portal enables collaboration with the help of Windows SharePoint Services sites, enabling you to organize, manage, and provision SharePoint sites from the portal.

SharePoint Site Customization

SharePoint sites are designed to be flexible. You can customize a site to fit your users' needs by adding or removing pages, changing the appearance of pages, changing the site navigation, and making other tailor made changes.

You must have the following rights to customize SharePoint sites, which are included in the Web Designer and Administrator site groups: Manage Lists

Add and Customize Pages
Apply Themes and Borders
Apply Style Sheets

Other users of your site cannot get access to the pages required to perform these tasks unless you specifically assign them to a site group that contains these permissions.

Customizing Web Sites From Within the Browser

You can customize SharePoint website from within the browser, using links from the Home, Create, and Site Settings pages of the website. From the browser you can customize following basic things:

Add a new list
Change the layout of the home page
Change the picture on the home page
Add a web part to a web part Page
Change a site's display name
Apply a new theme

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What are the Capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010?

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive enterprise search and content management, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

You can quickly create and manage SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, enterprise content management, records management, or BI needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people and documents; participate in forms-driven business processes; and access and analyze large business data.

Capabilities of SharePoint Server

Collaboration, Portal, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process and Forms, Business Intelligence and Licensed for Internet/Extranet

SharePoint 2010 Sites delivers a single infrastructure to provide portal and collaboration capabilities across internet, intranet and extranet. Bring all users together to share information, and knowledgebase across organizations.

SharePoint 2010 Search gives users the ability to find the people, content, and information they need by combining an integrated, with enterprise search technology.

SharePoint 2010 Communities empowers organization to work with people in ways that are most effective for them. Allow employees to collaborate in groups, share knowledge and ideas, connect with colleagues, and find information and experts without difficulty.

SharePoint 2010 Insights enables users to access and act together with information across unstructured and structured data sources. Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make better and more accurate business decisions.

SharePoint 2010 Content enables users to participate in a governed, compliant content management lifecycle. SharePoint Content makes it possible to skillfully balance user experience with organization policy and business process.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 is made for small business organizations or departments looking for a low-cost entry-level or pilot solution for secure, Web-based portal. Organization can use SharePoint Foundation to coordinate schedules, share, organize documents, and participate in discussions through team workspaces, blogs, wikis, and knowledgebase on the platform that is the underlying infrastructure for SharePoint Server.

SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. With the help of SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers can quickly create SharePoint solutions. Expert users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to line-of-business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and HR workflows. These great solutions leverage the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy-to-use environment. Additionally, developers can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to get a rapid start on SharePoint development projects.

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