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Customized Site Page
A customized site page should be compatible with sharepoint designer, like the following.
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User control in site page
The site Page can be added to the site page in site page in sharepoint directly(not wrapped by web part). You can do these using sharepoint designer.
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Deploying web parts to customized site pages.
There are two ways to deploy web part pages to a site. one is using the elements.xml to define what is inside the web part zone, like the following.
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SharePoint Feature
Feature is mechanism that SharePoint used to deploy customized components. The built in components like document list, team site also deployed using feature. So basically, everything can be deployed as feature, for example list definition, content type, site column, workflow and etc, except a site template. The core of the it are two files feature.xml and elements.xml.
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Site Page Essential
A page template, such as default.aspx, is compiled into an assembly dynamic-link library (DLL) and loaded into memory just once per Web application. However, this page template and its efficient usage of memory can still be used to serve up pages for thousands of sites. This is an obvious advantage toward scalability.