Video:
How to Use and Customize the Default Site
Skill
level:
200 (Beginner - Intermediate)- Run Time:
10:30
- Instructor:
Grant Moyle
Description:
In this video, you will learn how to customize the default site that SharePoint 2007 builds after installation. You can customize the default page and layouts that users see when they visit your SharePoint sites's main page (such as http://myportal/ - a portal from a previous video) - but it isn't obvious and you'll want to see how it's done (and that's where this video can help).
Highlights from this video:
- Customizing the default SharePoint site
- How to change the default site layout
- How to add a new event to your SharePoint calendar
- How to add announcements and calender entries
- Add New Items to announcements and how to expire announcements
- How Site Actions work and how you can use them to edit your site's layout
- Customize the title of your website
- How to set the title of your SharePoint site, the description, and the icon (favico.ico)
- How virtual directories work and how SharePoint reads files from folders dynamically
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Grant Moyle
Grant A. Moyle is the founder of Confuzer Inc, an Illinois-based
Windows, Exchange, and Networking consulting firm specializing in Implementation and
Troubleshooting Active Directory and Exchange. He has been a Microsoft
Certified System Engineer (MCSE) since the days of NT4 and a Certified
Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) since 2003. He has a Biomedical Engineering and
Electrical Engineering background from Johns Hopkins University, and over 10
y...
(Grant's full bio can be found here)
NOTE: This video is part of our
Building Portals with SharePoint 2007 course.
This video is from Chapter
5:
Working with SharePoint Services 3.0
