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• Enable Managing of the Web Site URL Structure: Specifies whether site
administrators can manage the URL structure of their site.
Figure 29: SharePoint Designer Settings
Master Pages
While SharePoint Server 2010 still relies on master pages for implementing a custom
look and feel to sites, there have been some enhancements made. Through the Web
interface or by using SharePoint Designer, a site owner will be able to apply branding to
their site, independent of other sites. This allows the administration of look and feel to
be delegated as appropriate. For branding of application and system pages, this role will
fall to the server administrator.
Administrators will be able to specify whether the system pages in the _Layouts folder
are rendered by using the site master pages provided by site owners or by default
master pages available across the system. In Office SharePoint Server 2007, pages
rendered from this directory used application.master. This presented a challenge to
organizations who wanted to create a custom user interface – because
application.master is a system file and there was no option to option to use a custom
master page for this. The only options available were to modify the system file or to