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Site definition
A site definition itself does not represent a creatable site template. Instead, a site definition contains one or more configurations, and these configurations are what appear to users as creatable site templates. Therefore, the STS site definition contains three different configurations: Team Site, Blank Site, and Document Workspace.
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WebPart can be only edit if it is hosted in WebPart Zone
We can add web part into a content page in sharepoint directly, but they can not be customized in share browser, it be customized in sharepoint designer. If you want user to customize it in browser, you have put in web part zone.
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Web folder in IE7
IE6 support opening a url as web folder, but this function is gone in ie7. But web folder function is still accessible in windows explorer. select the address bar , select web folders, select menu file -> new web folder, enter url. Then click the web folder it should be ok.
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Content type
Content types are a powerful new enhancement introduced in WSS 3.0. The central idea is that a content type defines the underlying schema for either an item in a list or a document in a document library. However, it’s important to understand that content types are defined independently outside the scope of any list or document library. After you have created a content type, you can use it across several different lists or several different document libraries.
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How to create site column
Site column is a reusable elements to build a content type or define a list. For example, if you have lots of lists which is using zip code, instead of redefining the zip code in all the lists, you can create a zip code site column so that you can use it across all the lists. Here site column and field type means the same thing, it is like int or string in .net. But it also can have some logic or UI associate with it.There are three ways to build a site column or field types.