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MOSS 2007, CSS, and you, the Non-Developer – Part 7, Pulling It All Together

We’ve walked through just about every part of the main page of a SharePoint site so now it’s time to bring it all together. In this article we’re going to discuss what best practices to follow, how .css files are applied in a SharePoint environment, some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way and

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MOSS 2007, CSS, and you, the Non-Developer – Part 6 Banners and Administrative pages

In my last ARTICLE we changed the way that our TopNavigation and SiteActions menus looked and displayed on our main page. In today’s article we’ll make some changes to the GlobalTitleArea, add a banner to our page and make some changes to classes that are tied to pages that reside in the _layouts directory.

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MOSS 2007, CSS, and you, the “Non-Developer” – Part 5: the TopNavigation and the SiteActions Menus

The last time we met we continued the modification of our SharePoint main page by making changes to the main body area of our page as well as changing the title font and border colors of some of our default web parts. As I said in that ARTICLE if you don’t count making changes

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MOSS 2007, CSS, and you, the Non-Developer – the body area.

Last week we continued our tour of the SharePoint site main page by walking through some changes to the GlobalTitleArea and surrounding areas of the page. In addition to making changes in the way the page displays by altering the default colors in the css declarations we also created, and used, a basic image

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MOSS2007, CSS, and you, the Non-Developer – the Quicklaunch

We’ll begin our little journey by changing the background colors of the quicklaunch menu and background column.

We’ll start by changing the top, left and right hand borders of the quicklaunch and the border at the bottom of the recycling bin.

Next we’ll change the color of what I had always called the “separator lines” within the

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MOSS2007, CSS and you, the Non-Developer – the Intro

Requirements, we love, and need, to have them but what happens when one of your first requirements is “make it look sexy”? In all honesty I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box, generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint” mandate

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