Slides and additional info from my SharePoint Saturday Columbus presentation

 

SharePoint 2007 & 2010 (and Office 365!) Customization for Site Owners

 

Here’s the PDF of the slides from my presentation for SharePoint Saturday Columbus (8/20/11): download it

 

More from the book…

 

Much of the background for this presentation is from my book “SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Customization for the Site Owner”. There you can find more on:

• The basics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery for SharePoint customization
• How to undo SharePoint Designer customizations
• Detailed steps to customize the 2007 site title and the 2010 title and crumb trail
• Convert Quick Launch into a pop-out or accordion menu
• Expanded versions of the blog articles listed below…

 

More from the blog…

Some of the content from the presentation is from past blog articles that include more detail:

• Web part tricks you should know (how to find out if a page is a web part page and how to remove bad web parts: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharepoint-tricks-for-web-part.html
   
• Customizing web part colors, fonts, borders and backgrounds:
  2007:  http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/sharepoint-2007-use-css-to-add-colors.html
  2010: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/sharepoint-2010-add-colors-borders-and.html
   
• Color coding task lists: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2008/11/sharepoint-color-coding-sharepoint.html
  and color coding past due tasks: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/03/sharepoint-past-due-late-tasks-in-task.html
   
• Replacing the text in empty list web parts: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharepoint-change-no-items-message-in.html
   
• Replacing the “Add new …” message:
  2007: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharepoint-change-add-new-message-for.html
  2010: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2010/08/sharepoint-2010-change-add-new-item-and.html
   
• Hide empty list web parts: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/11/sharepoint-hide-web-part-with-zero-rows.html
   
• Links lists tricks:
  Open in new window: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharepoint-adding-popups-to-link-lists.html
  Display a “site exit” message: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/12/sharepoint-add-you-are-leaving-this.html
  Convert to a dropdown list: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharepoint-convert-links-list-to.html 

 

See ya at SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati!

 

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