Re: Site Templates and other stuff.

From: Wayne Small (wayne_at_correct.com.au)
Date: 04/22/04


Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:18:54 +1000

Thanks for the advice guys - I'm a seldom poster in the newsgroups so I'm
not familiar with the correct process. Most of the support work I do is via
yahoogroups.

I'll try the suggestions and then post back later as to how they went for
me.

Regards,
Wayne Small

"Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23XAlEE2JEHA.3728@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >In addition, I'd suggest you can post each question in one new post, then
> the community >can provide assistance for you one by one.
>
> Just what I was thinking, Wei-Dong! Good advice.
>
> It makes it a lot easier to follow threads when questions that are
> different
> are split up into different messages with different Subjects.
>
> [I also find that I often can't be bothered to read very long messages and
> messages with several different questions tend to be long]
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> WSS FAQ at wss.collutions.com
> Please post questions to the newsgroup only.
>
>
> "Wei-Dong XU [MSFT]" <v-wdxu@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:pV2Ltx0JEHA.3564@cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Wayne,
>>
>> Please feel free to post your question at the community. I list my reply
> for each question respectively below.
>>
>> 1. Modify the top navaigation area
>> For each site definition file, there is one corresponding ONET.xml file
> located in %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server
>> Extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\<Site_Definition_Name>\XML folder. The
> ONET.XML is used to define the navigation area, CSS file, List definition
>> etc. You can find the header navigation definition at the <NavBar> node
>> in
> this xml file. Please modify it according to your requirement. Since this
>> file is applied to the whole site, after your modification, all the site
> header navigation will be affected. Please perform necessary backup before
> the
>> modification.
>>
>> For more info, the article "ONET.XML" and "Using Configurations" of WSS
> SDK will provide lots of assistance.
>>
>> 2. set your self-created page as the home page
>> The aspx page code in the default page of WSS is decided by the controls
> used. So I'd suggest you can open the default page directly in
>> Frontpage 2003 and modify the page with your own HTML design. Then test
> your own default page to see whether it works very well for you. If
>> not, simply undo your modification in Frontpage step by step to see which
> one affects the rendering of the page. You will be familiar with this
>> soon.
>>
>> 3. Create one custom Web part page template
>> There is one MSDN article introducing this for you:
>> Creating Custom Web Part Page Templates for Microsoft SharePoint Products
> and Technologies
>>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_sp2003_ta/html/sharepoint_creatingcustomwpptemplates.asp
>>
>> In addition, I'd suggest you can post each question in one new post, then
> the community can provide assistance for you one by one. Perhaps this
>> can help us to dig more on some issues. Just my suggestion. ;-)
>>
>> Please feel free to let me know if you have any question.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Wei-Dong Xu
>> Microsoft Product Support Services
>> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>>
>
>



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