Monday 14 May 2007

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