Minor Oversight in Ten Themes for Sharepoint

The 10 new Sharepoint themes that were released in March are absolutely great. They really give Sharepoint sites a different feel. However they have been released with a minor flaw. There is no styling for the Calendar! I don’t know if this was an oversight or what but the calendars still have the default blue coloring.

I suggest grabbing Heather Solomon’s Calendar CSS and include in any site where you plan to use these themes.

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Amazing Sharepoint Publishing Sites

Thanks to Joel Oleson and Michael Gannotti for publicizing this today, http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=202. These are amazing Sharepoint WCM sites for top companies. These are jaw dropping and show what a great platform Sharepoint is with great graphics artists banging out killer designs.

While our newly rebranded intranet portal does not look this flashy, I’m hopeful that our upcoming CMS review that it tentatively tabled, will let me promote the possibilities for a forward facing web page for our environment.

The more I’m enveloped in Sharepoint the more I love it!

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Design vs. Brand Loyalty

I had a post sitting in draft mode for a couple days but I hadn’t posted it, obviously. After reading it, it sounded more like a rant and that wasn’t my intent. So instead I’d like to know what people’s opinions are for internal applications in terms of brand consistency.

It seems to me that internal applications and sites should have a looser policy on the company’s brand. Brand consistency is important to the pubic so consumers can easily and routinely identify your product or company. Are internal programs required to follow the same standards?

I’d be interested in hearing other people’s opinions on the matter.

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Base CSS for a Vertical master page modification

So I finally completed a newly branded master page for our internal portal.  After a few mockups prior to our migration to MOSS, this is probably the third or fourth time I’ve done this.  The most frustrating thing about this is the styling that’s used.  Firebug and IE Developer toolbar help nailing these down.  When stylizing this new portal, I chose to override the Vertical and Core styles I did not like.  My base master page I chose to brand off of was the Blue Vertical master page, making a copy of the original course.

For my sanity’s sake, I have created a base CSS template that can be used to get most of the styling done.  It doesn’t include a few custom styles for headers, footer, and custom search controls that I used.  It also does not include the drop shadow styles, as I removed those in the design. Enjoy!

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eric

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