Foundation - Multiple page layouts

I've been asked to brand a SP 2010 Foundation site. They want different designs for department pages or committee pages or location pages. I've done this in sites with Publishing available, which of course, makes it all work well. I was planning on making several webpart pages and deploy them to different sites depending on url (/department/*, /location/*, etc). These pages would all be stand-alone at this point. Is this the only/best way to do this? Other ideas?

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April 20th, 2015 8:38pm

Hi,

According to your description, you might want to apply different design to different sites/pages.

As it is not supported to create custom page layouts which can enable common users create pages with, an approach is to create custom pages and deploy to the sites you want.

Two links about how to the ways to brand a SharePoint Foundation site for your reference:

http://www.gregguth.com/Portfolio/Branding2010.shtml

http://blog.blksthl.com/2012/03/18/a-guide-to-branding-and-sharepoint-foundation/

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Patrick Liang
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April 22nd, 2015 2:07am

Hi,

If i understand correctly, you can also create Page Layouts for each department and pages can be created using page layouts for respective department.

You can have a look at below links to get started with creating Custom Page Layouts using SharePoint Designer -

http://www.thesharepointmuse.com/sharepoint-2010-branding/

http://sharepointpromag.com/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-branding-101-branding-page-layouts

Hope it helps.

Thanks,
Danny

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April 27th, 2015 2:49am

As already mentioned, you are out of luck with custom page layouts and foundation sites. That functionality does not exist. Foundation site templates only allow the text layout, which is customizable by content authors.

If you are unable to use Patrick's workaround with content pages, there are a few codeplex projects that attempt to provide publishing like features.

You might try the following:

https://mundpublishingfeatur.codeplex.com/

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April 28th, 2015 6:37pm

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