Thursday, April 30, 2009
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Use Windows Live Writer
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Show your Latest Postings
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Create a bloggers list in the sidebar
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Personalize Your Blog Header with an Image
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Use Windows Live Writer
In this fourth installment of the Pimp Your Blog Screencast Series, Lee talks about using Windows Live Writer to write and publish post.
Author: Lee Reed ThoughtBridge, Atlanta, GA
Lee Reed is an expert in collaboration and user adoption on the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 platform. His consulting with companies large and small throughout the East Coast has resulted in many successful collaboration environments and increased user adoption.
Lee is currently the Director of Business Process and SharePoint Education for Thoughtbridge, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused exclusively on the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 platform.
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Entries in this series:
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Show your Latest Postings
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Create a bloggers list in the sidebar
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Personalize Your Blog Header with an Image
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Use Windows Live Writer
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Add a Short Bio About Yourself
- Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Manage Your Blog Posts
I really like your advise here. I tried the windows live writer and it works great thanks. Is there a way to easily modify the background color or add back ground images to a sharepoint blog?
Thanks, Richard. The background is a function of the template that is being used by the SharePoint blog. Live Writer inherits that background and posts the info back to the SP Blog with the blog’s settings.
That said, I believe you might be asking how the colors/background might be changed in the SharePoint MasterPage. To do that, you will need SharePoint Designer, some time and a lot of patience and trial and error to get what you want. (at least, that’s what I need).
If I have some time in the next two weeks I’ll create a video to show you how to modify the default.master page using Designer…..unless someone else reading this can share a link to an explanation on how to modify default.master using Designer.
Be sure to also visit my friend Dan Lewis’ blog posting on how to get and install Live Writer 2009.
http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1554
Is it possible to show first few lines of the Blog post and than allow the user to click to get to full post rather than showing full post on Blog front page? much like announcements?