Page Layouts, Solutions and SharePoint Designer (Updated)

If you are deploying custom page layouts using a feature, DO NOT OPEN THEM IN SHAREPOINT DESIGNER! Not even once. Not just to “take a look”. Not for giggles.
Why? Because once you open that page layout in SharePoint Designer, it gets un-ghosted. This does two things. First, it means [...]

Sharepoint Top Nav Dividers

In a client project I’m working on, the design calls for dividers in between each navigation link. No problem. Here’s the CSS:
.ms-topnav a
{
border-left-style:solid !important;
border-left-color:#fff !important;
border-left-width:1px !important;
padding: 0 10px 0 10px;

}

However, this leaves the border on the first element of the navigation, which we don’t want. There’s no way to select that [...]

Sharepoint base css

Here’s a simple stylesheet that I’m going to start using as a basis for customizing all of my Sharepoint team sites.

/* Top Bar */
.ms-globalbreadcrumb
{
background-color:#7caf72;
}

/* Header */
.ms-globalTitleArea
{
background:none !important;
}

/* Navigation */
.ms-bannerContainer, .ms-pagemargin, .ms-navframe, .ms-leftareacell
{
background:none !important;
}
.ms-nav
{
background-image:none !important;
}
.ms-topnavContainer, .ms-topnavselected, .ms-topnav {
border: none;
background: none;

}

table.ms-topnavselected, table.ms-topnav {
height: 30px;
margin-left: 1px;
margin-right: 1px;
}
.ms-topnavContainer div
{
background-color:transparent !important;
}
.ms-topNavFlyOuts, .ms-topNavFlyOuts a:link
{
background-color:transparent !important;
}
/* Body */
body {
text-align: center;
margin: 0px [...]

Configuring and Deploying Anonymous Publishing Sites for SharePoint Server 2007

Helpful article just posted:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638968.aspx

Handy Regular Expressions

While working on a Sharepoint css file, I was able to use a nift regex instead of copying and pasting all over the place.
The tag I had looked like this:
#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 td h3 a
I wanted to add a tag on the end so that it looked like this:
#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ4 td h3 a, #MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ5 td h3 a
I used [...]

SharePoint Webpart Styling

I always wondered how to style a single webpart on the page.
http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/Controlling-Single-Web-Parts-with-CSS.aspx
Been dealing with CSS for a long time and never knew about attribute selectors.  Only issue is you can’t be in Quirks mode, which does mess up the rendering of some elements in SharePoint.

Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 Upgrade thoughts

I just completed a medium sized upgrade (83GB) for a client from Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 and thought I’d share a few things I took away from it:

You’re probably going to need to create a new Site Definition to map to the old one if the old one is customized at all
Set expectations with users [...]