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Demos and Presentations

Building Custom Microsoft SharePoint Sites with Templates and Site Definitions
A walkthrough of what custom templates and site definitions are and when to use them.

Cut your work in half with the new Split view
In Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003, the new Split view gives you simultaneous complete control over both the design and the code of your Web pages.

Developing Custom SharePoint Solutions with FrontPage
With FrontPage 2003, you can take advantage of new functionality to create powerful solutions.  Features include: working with Web Part pages, bringing external data into SharePoint, be able to design high quality page design and extend Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server.

Using Interactive Buttons
Create professional-looking buttons on your Web site without a lot of effort.  You can bypass learning design and coding skills using FrontPage interactive buttons. With these dynamic buttons, you can impress even your fussiest customers with easy-to-use site navigation, the kind typically produced with advanced graphical editing tools.

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Samples and Tutorials

Convert a Web Site from Shared Borders to Dynamic Web Templates
If your existing Web site uses Shared Borders, you are missing out on the power of Dynamic Web Templates (DWTs). This article shows you how to convert your Shared Borders site into a DWT, preserving the look and feel of your old Shared Borders layout, but with all of the advantages of a DWT.

Create a Site Context Search Box that Uses SharePoint Portal Server Search Results
Customize the Windows SharePoint Services site-level Search box to return SharePoint Portal Server Search results. This article reviews different methods you can use to modify the search capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services.

Customize Your Toolbars and Menus
Learn how to change existing toolbars and menus, including the shortcut menu, and how to create your own toolbars and menus in Microsoft® Office programs.

Usage BLOB Parser for Windows SharePoint Services
Use this sample download to retrieve the daily and monthly usage BLOBs that are processed from the front-end Web servers in a deployment of Windows SharePoint Services.

Under the Hood: Effortless Ways to Work with Code in FrontPage
Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003 is a great tool for visually designing Web pages, but it also provides handy ways to work directly with the HTML code. Take this course and you'll see how.

Working with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
A financial sample Windows SharePoint Services-based Web sites customized with FrontPage 2003.

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Tips and Tricks

Add Graphics to a List
Adding a graphic, such as a picture or clip art, to an Interactive list in your Web site based on SharePoint™ Team Services from Microsoft can be an easy and resourceful way to add value to your list. For example, you can create a Contacts list with pictures of the team members to enable people to become familiar with their associates.

Browser and Resolution Reconciliation to Design a Consistent User Experience
You can design Web sites that display well on multiple browsers and at varying screen resolutions using the browser and resolution reconciliation features in FrontPage 2003.

Cascading Style Sheet Guide for Windows Sharepoint Services
The OWS.CSS, the Cascading Style Sheet is applied by default to all Web sites based on Windows Sharepoint Services from Microsoft. Many of these styles are also used in Microsoft FrontPage themes.

How to Change the Color of the Horizontal Top Border
This article describes how to change the background color of the top horizontal border of a whole Web site that is based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

Moving a Custom Theme From One Computer to Another
Find out how to transfer Custom Themes from one computer to another.

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Whitepapers

Applying a Theme to a Site Created with Windows SharePoint Services
Learn how to apply a Theme to a site so you can change the colors and formatting across all pages in just a few minutes.

Deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies for Enterprise Collaboration
Detailed discussion about the design and deployment of the Microsoft IT hosted collaboration platform

Using FrontPage 2003 to Design Customized Web Sites Created with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
Sites created with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint™ Services are fully customizable with Microsoft® Office FrontPage® 2003—from the fonts and formatting to the text and graphics and navigational structure of the site. All of the features and functionality available in FrontPage 2003 can be applied to pages in your site created with Windows SharePoint Services. Therefore, you can take advantage of cutting edge new features in FrontPage 2003 that make designing, coding, and extending Web sites or Web pages more flexible and more powerful than ever before.

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