All you ever wanted to know about SharePoint 2007 Site Templates
Posted by: Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com,
on 05 Jul 2007 |
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What are site templates? Sometimes, you need to create the cutter for sites, so you can create cookie cutter sites easily. SharePoint comes with a few such cookie cutters out of the box. You might have seen this cookie cutter picker when creating a site/site collection etc. as shown below: Those are usually site definitions (not Site Templates). I have covered the process of registering custom site definitions over here. The obvious Q here is, How are Site Templates different from Site Definitions? Site Templates vs. Site Definitions Site Templates are a LOT easier to create than Site Definitions. You can create a site template using point and click. Creating a site definition requires hand-coding a lot of XML files...