SharePoint 2007: Defining your own Portal Template and Customising Look and Feel

Whilst looking for a way to customize the "Custom" site templates name after create a Site Template, I came across the following this post which looks quite interesting. It shows you how to modify the Colloboration Portal to create your own Colloboration Portal Templatehttp://sharepointandstuff.blogspot.com/2007/07/customizing-out-of-box-collaboration.htmlIf you are looking for a way to fix the "

SharePoint 2007: Show the Quick Launch in Custom Web Part Pages

Funnily, when you create a Web Part Page, the Quick Launch is not available. This has always annoyed me, because it changes the look and feel of the whole site. Looks like this can be easily fixed.One Off FixOpen the Page for editing in Sharepoint DesignerRemove the LeftNavBar Content Place holder from Master Page (ie. remove the content Place holder) Save the Page. You can now find the Quick

Google Account - Where is the My Account link?

This morning, as soon as I accessed my iGoogle page, I found the My Account link had disappeared. Instead it has been replaced by a Web History and Preferences buttons which I rarely used and need. I rarely need to edit my Preferences, whilst I access My Account at the least every few hours.I loved the fact that My Account made all my various Google Services including, AdSense, Analytics and

SharePoint - Programming Security

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