Create a New Wiki Page
When you choose to create a new wiki page (using the option Page in the Create dialog shown in Figures 1 and 2),
the name box appears on the right side of the Create dialog with
Silverlight or, if you are using the Create dialog without Silverlight,
a New Page dialog appears, asking for the name for the new page.
After you type the name for
the new page, click the Create button. The name for the page is
important because it is used for both the name of the file (which the
users type in the address bar of their browsers to open the page) and
as the title of the page (which the users see in the navigation bar and
in the top of their browsers). You should select a short but meaningful
name for the page. You can rename it later, but that can cause links to
the page to break.
When you click Create,
SharePoint checks whether it has a fitting library into which to put
the wiki page. If it doesn’t, you are prompted that two new libraries
will be created: a wiki page library for wiki pages and a site assets
library for any images or other types of files you want to upload and
display as part of the page (see Figure 6).
For example, if you add an image to a wiki page, that image gets
uploaded to the asset library. These kinds of files are referred to as assets.
If you click Create, SharePoint create two libraries: Site Assets (for the assets) and Site Pages (for wiki pages).
If
a default library already exists for wiki pages in the site, you are
not prompted. Instead, the page is immediately created and opens in
editing mode.
Create a New Web Part Page
When you choose the Web Part Page option in the Create dialog with Silverlight (refer to Figure 1),
the only option you have in the dialog is the Create button. Clicking
this button opens the settings page for the web part page—the same one
that opens when you click Web Part Page in the Create dialog without
Silverlight (refer to Figure 2).
In this page you must
choose a name for the file that will be created for the page. You also
choose the layout template for the web part zones on the page and the
document library to put the page in, as shown in Figure 7.
The different web part zone
layout templates are shown in the page under the Choose a Layout
Template. Each option in the list box describes the page that will be
created in the form of where the web part zones will be located. For
example, the layout template called Full Page, Vertical has only one
web part zone, spread across the entire page, and any web part that is
added to it is vertical, spreading the entire width of the page. Other
web parts can be either above it or below it. If you click on the
different layout templates, the image on the left change to show a
wireframe of the web part zones layout, as shown in Figure 7.
Tip
Choose
the layout template carefully because it is not possible to change the
layout of a web part page after it is created. If you create a page with
the wrong layout, you have to delete it and create it again with the
correct layout.
If there are any document
libraries in the site, you can choose them from the Document Library
option at the bottom of the page. By default, all pages in a site go to
either the Site Pages library or the Pages library, if one exists. If
you want to create the page in a different library, you can choose it
from the box.
After you picked the
title, layout template, and document library, click Create. The new
page is created in the document library and opens in editing mode.
Create a New Publishing Page
In a site that supports
publishing pages, an option to create a page should appear under the
Site Actions menu as Create Page. However, if it doesn’t, it is with
the other page options, as described earlier. The process of creating
the page is slightly different when you choose the Create Page option
from them menu, however, in that you are not asked what page layout you
want for your page, and a default page layout is used. This is very
useful for site managers who want to make it easier for users to always
create the same kind of page, while leaving a more flexible option to
create different types of page by using the Create dialog.
If you choose to create a
publishing page by using the Create Page option in the Site Actions
menu, you are prompted for a page name only, and the page is created
with the default layout. You can change the layout of the page later . The name you choose for the page is used to
generate the page’s file name (which is displayed to the user in the
address bar of the browser). You can change this name later, but
changing it breaks users’ favorite lists and links to the page, so it
is not recommended. The name is also used to set the page’s title,
which can be changed later with no issues.
You might want to choose the
page layout before creating the page, set its description, and set the
file name and the title separately.
When you choose the
Publishing Page option from the Create dialog, you have only the Create
button available to you. Click on this button to open the Create Page
settings page, where you can enter the new page’s title, description,
and URL name (the name for the file, as just explained), as well as the
page layout for the page, as shown in Figure 8.
Because
page layouts can be created by developers or removed by administrators,
you might see more or fewer options for layouts than you see in this article. You should review the options available and choose the one
that’s closest to what you want to achieve with your page. Remember
that a page is just a file in a document library, and you can always
delete the page if you choose the wrong layout—just as you would delete
any other file in a document library.
After you selected a title, a
URL name, and a page layout, click the Create button to create the page
and open it in editing mode.
