I'm a little overwhelmed between master pages, page layouts, templates, etc, and new to sharepoint 2013.
Sharepoint 3.0 had a great knowledge base template, which I used for years, and I'm trying to create a new site in sharepoint 2013 to be my new knowledge base. I guess the enterprise wiki template is my only choice. Tell me if I'm wrong.
The Enterprise Wiki is very plain and lacks many things I liked about the old kb template. Less is more sometimes, but one thing I'd really like to add is announcements. I'd like to put an announcement web part or app or snippet or whatever you're calling it now, into a column on the right hand side of each article-type page.
My page template (master page?) would then have three main columns, the navigation area on the left, the main content in the middle, and the column with announcements on the right. Currently what I have on that right hand side by default is a page rating system and the word categories with nothing under it. The announcements could go right under that.
Can someone summarize for me, how to add the announcements to that spot? Thanks very much for any assistance.
Bill
Bill Coulter