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CSS Stub for common Sharepoint 2007 and WSS v3 styles

After taking a look at Heather Solomon's awesome CSS Reference Chart for Sharepoint 2007 (with illustrations!), I though it would be a good idea to translate her hard work into a stubbed CSS document for use in my projects. Keep in mind that I haven't verified whether all of her styles actually do what they claim to do. I simply converted the table into a usable stylesheet. All you need to do is just fill in your custom style elements. You can download the the stylesheet here [.css] or here [.pdf].

Creating and Deploying a Custom Master Page with STSDev

This is my second post on creating SharePoint solutions the easy way, with STSDEV. This time around I'll be enhancing my last post's project by adding a custom master page. This master page will start by using a base master page from Heather Solomon's site . If you don't already have it, download it. The base master page simply gives you a stripped down master page that you can enhance. We'll actually do some enhancements to give a taste of the power that you have over the UI when you choose to customize a master page. Step 1: Add the base master page to the project If you haven't already done so, download and unzip the base master page from Heather Solomon's site. Right click on your 'RootFiles\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\YourSiteTemplateName' directory and choose 'Add Existing Item' Select the base master page from your file system and click 'Add' Rename the file 'SharePointersDemoCustom.master'. Step 2: Editing the Defa...