Whitepapers- Designing

AddCustomGlobalWebTemplate Method
The AddCustomGlobalWebTemplate method of the SPGlobalAdmin class adds a site template to the site template gallery for the collection of site collections in the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services deployment.

Adding a Custom View Style to Windows SharePoint Services
Enhance the experience of users in Windows SharePoint Services by creating and deploying a custom view style for lists or document libraries. You can create a view style that goes beyond the default styles to provide users a specific kind of interaction with lists and libraries.

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.

Changing Gradient Images in Sites Created with Windows SharePoint Services
Once you have learned how to create or customize a Theme, you can learn how to change the gradient images found in menu bars and toolbars in default sites created with Windows SharePoint Services.

Changing the Way Lists and Libraries are Displayed
Insert a view of a Windows SharePoint Services list or library into a page, and then customize that view to present the data in a variety of styles and formats. New with FrontPage 2003, you can even create XSLT Data Views so that you can change the display and format however you like.

Creating Custom Web Part Page Templates for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
Learn how to add custom Web Part Page templates to SharePoint sites by using sample code for the Web Part Page creation form and several sample templates.

Customizing Personal Sites in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
The personal sites available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 are a potentially powerful tool with which users in an organization can define themselves to the larger organization. This paper explores several options for customizing personal sites to get the most out of the My Site features of SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Customizing SharePoint Sites and Portals: Part 1
The first of three companion articles. Learn ways you can customize a SharePoint site and an area; manage users, sites, and templates; change the structure of pages in a site; manage user access; and optimize style sheets.

Customizing Themes for Windows SharePoint Services
Create your own custom Theme for Windows SharePoint Services to apply consistent fonts and formatting across Web pages or Web sites. Themes specify formatting for text, buttons, backgrounds, toolbars, and more.

Customizing Web Parts
This whitepaper describes how Web Parts can be customized using FrontPage 2003 and discusses the types of Web Part properties (Common and Custom) as well as how they can be modified in FrontPage. Customization of static Web Parts and the variety of options available to the FrontPage 2003 developer in controlling the appearance of, and data in, a ListView Web Part is also discussed.

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

Dig Deeper into SharePoint Site and Portal Customization: Part 2
Learn how to create and edit a site using templates and site definitions.

Document Library Migration Tools XML Manifest File for SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Understand the format and structure of the XML manifest file that Spin.exe uses to process and load files into SharePoint Portal Server 2003 document libraries based on SQL Server.

Embed Watermarks into Images During Upload to a Picture Library on a SharePoint Site
Simplify copyright protection for your picture library images with built-in Web services for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. This article describes how to create a sample client application allowing you to embed watermarks into images when uploading them to a picture library on a SharePoint site.

Modifying the User Interface for Web Parts and Web Parts Pages
Learn how to customize the user interface (UI) for Web Parts and Web Parts Pages. This paper reviews the different methods by which you can modify the UI for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and related products. The information in this article also applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, which is built on the Windows SharePoint Services platform.

Overview of Custom Templates in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services
This article contains information about site definition and custom templates that are used in Windows SharePoint Services, and discusses some considerations and limitations that apply when you customize templates for use in SharePoint Portal Server.

Overview of Web Parts Framework
This white paper gives an overview of the Web Part Framework in Windows Sharepoint Services, and provides a walkthrough of building a simple Web Parts Page using Microsoft FrontPage 2003.

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.

Using Interactive Buttons
Learn how to create buttons from within FrontPage, without using a graphics editing program. You can even create buttons that change when you hover over them or press them, all without requiring programming or scripting experience.

Web Part Templates for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Learn how to install and use the Web Part templates for Visual Studio .NET. Use these templates to create Web Part libraries containing Web Parts and Tool Parts for Windows SharePoint Services.

Writing Custom Designers for .NET
This paper will cover the various features of designers, how to associate them with components, and how to use those features to create great design time UI.

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