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By: jeffi

jeffi — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:21:16 +0000

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?

By: Lee Reed

Lee Reed — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:11:26 +0000

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

By: Lee Reed

Lee Reed — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:19:48 +0000

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.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:24:48 +0000

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?