Working with SharePoint Designer - Creating a New Aspx page

Overview

You can create custom web pages with SharePoint designer and then attach your SharePoint master page with the look and feel of your site.

Sample Process

1. Open up your SharePoint site with SharePoint Designer.
2 . Create a document library for custom web pages.
3. Right click in the document library and select the new aspx command.

4. Right click on your Document and select Properties to change the title. (Just a good practice)




5. After saving the new title, double click on the aspx file to open the page in SharePoint Designer.
6. You can edit the page at this point or go right into attaching the master page. Usually I do my edits first and add my web part zones.
7. Add a web part zone by clicking form#form1 then selecting from the tool bar: Insert then SharePoint Controls then Web Part Zone.



8. Attach the master page by clicking on the tool bar: Format then Master Page then Attach Master Page


9.Typically you want the default master page for your site.



10. The Body is placed in the Main Place Holder, if you have other place holders on your Master page you could modify the content to go there.



11. As SharePoint Designer attaches the page you will see all the typical formatting for your site appear. Save your custom page and you are finished.