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» Web Part page: This type of SharePoint page provides Web Part zones where you can drag and drop various Web Parts (reusable pieces of functionality) right onto your pages from the SharePoint Web Part gallery. Although a set of Web Parts comes standard with SharePoint, you can also custom develop Web Parts to meet your specific business needs. Imagine developing a Web Part for your company that ventures forth to become an everyday tool for nearly all the users in your organization — on their own sites — and to get the tool, all they have to do is simply drag and drop the Web Part right onto their pages. For example, you may have Web Parts that you have developed for your call center reps. When new Web Part pages are developed, the Web Parts that are used by the call center can be added to the page. This lets
a programmer package up web functionality into a reusable component (Web Part) that can be reused on multiple pages.
» Publishing page: This type of SharePoint page is designed to serve two functions: managing content and managing the look and feel of the page.
A publishing page lives in a document library that provides version control and the SharePoint workflow feature. It’s designed for the management and distribution of content — the essence of publishing content to SharePoint.
To start exploring these page types you just need to make sure you have the Pub- lishing Infrastructure feature turned on and then you can either add the content types to an existing library or look for the existing Pages library already on your site. Selecting New from the ribbon of a library gives you the option to create one of these page types (assuming you have added the content type to the library as was described in Chapter 8).
For more information on developing in the SharePoint environment, check out SharePoint 2019 For Dummies by Rosemarie Withee and Ken Withee.
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