By Errin O’Connor

Errin O’Connor is a leading expert on SharePoint Products and Technologies. He is a senior information architecture consultant and founder of EPCGroup.net, a firm focused on SharePoint implementation and application development. There, Errin concentrates his efforts on planning and executing robust content management, intranet, and Internet solutions built on SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft .NET Framework–based applications. He has more than 40 custom implementation projects to his credit.

Lists and libraries are the repositories for almost anything you want to keep in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site. Once you have stored the data, you can configure Web Part pages to display the lists and libraries in your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site. In this chapter, Errin explains how to create lists and libraries, including not only the standard types that come with SharePoint Services, but also custom types you design yourself to meet your specific needs. He also explain how you can then use display data via RSS feeds and use use workflows to automate specific. Finally, Errin describes how you can use content types to standardize your organization’s procedures for capturing metadata and managing information.

This article is an excerpt from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out by Errin O’Connor. Visit the Microsoft Learning Web site to buy this book.

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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

• Creating SharePoint Sites, Workspaces, and Pages
• Using WSS 3.0 Web Parts
• Managing Site Content
• Managing Site Settings

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