How can we display a simple custom page in SharePoint?
Ok first thing there is no concept of simple page in SharePoint. There are two types of pages in SharePoint as we discussed in the previous article one is an Application page and the other is the site page. Application page is a generic page while site pages are custom to a website. To just cool you off lets display a simple Application page first. Some points to be noted about Application pages:- • They are pages which are shared across sites like ‘settings.aspx’ , which will helps us set generic properties across sites in a site collection. • The second important part is that we need to save application pages in ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS’ folder. If you browse to the folder you will find SharePoint’s own application pages. Ok, what we will do is that to build confidence let’s make a simple page called as ‘SimplePage.aspx’. We are not doing anything great in this we will just write this simple sentence inside the page.
