Monday, 14 May 2007

SharePoint 2007: Using a Favicon.ico for your sites

A great post on creating favourite links for your SharePoint sites.

http://mindsharpblogs.com/kathy/archive/2006/11/27/1384.aspx

SharePoint 2007: Customizing and Branding SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services (Link Dump)

A few links of branding and customizing your SharePoint

MS WebCast:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032269755&CountryCode=US

Custom Chrome / Branding
http://geekswithblogs.net/mhamilton/archive/2006/07/15/85312.aspx
Core Components vs Templates
http://geekswithblogs.net/mhamilton/archive/2006/07/22/85958.aspx

How to rebrand the WSS 3.0 / MOSS Navigation with only CSS
http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2006/09/05/741030.aspx

6 post series for Branding TylerButler.com by Tyler Butler :) The great thing about this post is that it states that:

"MOSS features should be leveraged as much as possible without writing custom code
It was important that I get as far as I could without writing code. I still did in a couple of cases (I can’t help it – I like writing code!), but I estimate 90% of my work was code-free (unless you count XSLT as code; I don’t)"


Planning and Basic Branding:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/10/30/building-tylerbutler-com-part-1-planning-and-basic-branding.aspx

Building Content Types and Page Layouts
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/11/06/building-tylerbutler-com-part-2-building-content-types-and-page-layouts.aspx

Customizing Content Query Styles
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/11/16/building-tylerbutler-com-part-3-customizing-content-query-styles.aspx

The Main Home Page and Migrating Content
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/12/11/building-tylerbutler-com-part-4-the-main-home-page-and-migrating-content.aspx

Final Touches
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/12/18/building-tylerbutler-com-part-5-final-touches.aspx

What was Tough and What's To Come
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2007/01/16/building-tylerbutler-com-part-6-what-was-tough-and-what-s-to-come.aspx

MSDN Branding Articles
Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830818.aspx

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 2 of 3): Extending WCM
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830815.aspx

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 3 of 3): Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830817.aspx

Building HedKandi.com using MOSS 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/09/30/777819.aspx

Thursday, 10 May 2007

SharePoint 2007: Creating a link to the Portal Home

When you have different site collections, you normally need to create a link to the Portal. To do this you just need to click on the Site Settings of the Current Site Collection and find Portal Site Connection under the Site Collection Administration. Here you enter the name to give to the link and the url of the portal.

For My Sites, you should go to your _layouts/settings.aspx page located at http://Portal/MySite/_layouts/settings.aspx (or replace /MySite with the URL of your My Sites Site Collection), and create a Portal Site Connection from that page. My Sites will then have a link to Portal too.