Branding SharePoint is not an easy task, although the assistance of tools does help ease and allow us Designers to produce beautiful solutions. Here are the tools that I use throughout my consulting projects where SharePoint Branding is the task at hand:
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 - favorite tool of SharePoint designers with WYSIWYG editor and [...]
I have mentioned a bit about search engine optimization within SharePoint before, so I thought I’d share some more information that I have collected working with clients. When developing sites make sure you have a read through this.
Things to Think About
Make sure you use the markup validation (http://validator.w3.org)
Use color blindness simulators (http://www.vischeck.com) to test pages
Make [...]
Just wanted to do a quick post for items I must share:
Congrats to Vertigo Software have being awarded Microsoft Web Development Partner of the Year for their work on Hard Rock application (go check it out)!
From Chad Brooks blog post Enabling MOSS to use .Net 3.5 points to Presentation Model in SharePoint
Learn how to do [...]
Its the first day of the SharePoint Conference 2008 and I am missing quite a bit by not being there. After reading my daily SharePoint blog posts and news, a few buzz worthy news items are brought to my attention:
Microsoft SharePoint Online by Microsoft Online Services
Based off of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint [...]
Here’s a SharePoint branding tip for the top navigation menu:
To change the background color for the top navigation flyouts via CSS using this .ms-topNavFlyOutsContainer { background-color:#000 !important; } will give you a black background but will still cause the background color to be different when the text size is smaller then the width of the [...]
Ramon Scott just posted on his blog on how to perform wildcard people search on MOSS 2007. His script example, shows how to search for First Name and Last Name. After reading some of the comments, many were wondering how to implement search on additional search fields.
That’s when I remembered, I had a similiar solution [...]
I had a quick tip for those that are working on branding. If you would like to change the search button image and CSS is not helping you acheive this via editing an XML file on the SharePoint web server.
Default WSS/MOSS Search Image:
For the Enhanced Search edit the following file - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web [...]
