New Item

|

Edit Item

|

Delete Item

|

Alert Me

|

Go Back to List

Section:	IV
SubSection:	1
Number:
Title:	What are the main skills I need to customize an STS web site?
Body:	When you first start customizing you should use the User Interface provided by STS. With this you can change the document libraries visible on the home page; add document libraries; add fields (columns) to document libraries; provide views of document libraries etc. For the next level of customizing you will need to amend the html files used in the site itself. For this you can use Notepad; HTML editors etc. and also FrontPage. For some amendments FrontPage is advantageous (and perhaps necessary). Similar tools are needed to amend the files in the template section. Amendments here will affect all sites created later and therefore amendments to the template files need to be done with great care (with copies made etc.). Be 100% sure you know what you are doing before amending these files ! Finally, the template section also includes XML files. When amending these it is useful to use an XML Editor. This is even more dangerous than amending normal template (html) files, so amend these only when really necessary. Note that the use of FP and Notepad is not recommended for XML files - Notepad has been reported as adding code at the beginning of the .xml file that can cause problems. Probably the best (if you can get hold of a cheap back version; or afford the latest version) editor for XML files is "XML Spy" but people have also reported using Textpad successfully.
Link:
Q:	1. - What are the main skills I need to customize an STS web site?
Attachments:

Created at 5/27/2005 6:56 PM by Jim Last modified at 5/27/2005 7:02 PM by Jim