Branding and Customizing SharePoint 2007

Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites

1. Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features
2. Extending WCM
3. Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites

Branding Your SharePoint Site.

This article is an excerpt from Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 by Steve Fox and Paul Stubbs from Wrox (ISBN 978-0-470-43400-0, copyright Wiley Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved).

How CSS Works with Master Pages P1,

• P2: How CSS Works with Master Pages: The Scenario
• P3: How CSS Works With Master Pages: Summary of CSS Methods
• P4: Packaging Up your Masterpiece Into a Feature
• P5: Feature Improvements and Bugs
• P6: Solution to All Issues
• P7: The Governance of It All

Approaches to Creating Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007

CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007

.COM Branding (Webcast)

Page Branding (Webcast: Adrew Connell)

Understanding and Creating Customized and Uncustomized Files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

SharePoint's Branding And Limitations:

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: The menus. The meta menu and the top navigation with fly outs in the header and the quick launch menu and site actions menu. What are the possibilities for styling this menu’s? And how is it implemented?
• Part 3: web parts with text zones, lists and tables. Other topics are the graphical possibility’s of the edit mode and the news articles.
• Part 4: The Art of SharePoint, how to make a graphical design work for SharePoint, I will discuss some design decisions for search pages and the My Site. Other points of interest are the styling of the calendar and date picker and the use of SIFR

Another great recompilation of links for branding and customizing.