Applies to: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
Joel Krist, iSoftStone
July 2007
Master pages provide the look and feel for all of the pages in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site. By changing the styles or content of a master page, you can quickly customize the appearance of an entire site. This Office Visual How To illustrates how to build simple master pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. 
To illustrate how to build simple master pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, this section walks through three key steps:
Open a SharePoint Site in Office SharePoint Designer The first step is to open the SharePoint site for which the new master page is to be created. To open a SharePoint site in SharePoint Designer
Locate and Create a Copy of the default.master Page By default a single master page named default.master is applied to all the pages in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site. Copying default.master and then modifying the copy is a good option for creating a new master page, if this default master page already meets most needs and only a few changes are required. The default master page is located in the Master Page Gallery. To create a copy of the default.master master page
The new master page is named default_copy(1).master. You can now modify and rename this page. When a master page is copied, all content pages that are attached to the original master page (in this case, Default.master) remain attached to the original master page and not to the copy. After you copy and customize Default.master, you can apply the new master page to all of the content pages in the site. Apply the New Master Page Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 defines two types of master pages: the System Master Page and the Site Master Page. Forms and views pages use the System Master Page; publishing pages use the Site Master Page. SharePoint Designer refers to these two types of master pages by different names. It refers to the System Master Page as the Default Master Page and to the Site Master Page as the Custom Master Page. When a new master page is set as the default master page, all of the pages that are attached to the current master page are also attached to the new master page. To apply the new master page to the site
This article explores how to build simple master pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. The key steps covered are as follows:
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[tfl - 04 06 09] Hi - and thanks for your post. You should post questions like this to the MSDN Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn or the MSDN Newsgroups at
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I wouldn't call this article "Building Simple Master Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0", I'd call it "How to Copy and Paste a Master Page in SharePoint".
The only information in this article which I think would be even remotely useful to anyone is:
"SharePoint Designer refers to these two types of master pages by different names."
Which just goes to show how inconsistent the SharePoint system is.