In this final segment of my series on ways that you can get more involved in the SharePoint community, I’ll focus on ideas for how you can generate content.

Blogs generally ebb and flow with their content as events happen. Having no way to classify types of posts can cause reader confusion. 

In today’s article we’ll continue working with the blog site and work on how the Admin Links web part displays and how we can set a custom width on the form body of the Post, NewPost, and EditPost pages of the blog site.

As such I had to make the blog page look the same as the rest of the pages in my SharePoint portal. Sounds simple enough doesn’t it? I wish it had been as simple as it sounds. I quickly found that styling the blog pages is a little more difficult than the basic team sites I had just finished.

Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net has an article and video that will get you to start thinking about how to create references to other content within your new and existing content.

Planet SharePoint aggregates blog posts from almost 200 SharePoint focused blogs.

Here are 8 ways companies can extend SharePoint’s out-of-the-box capabilities to better fit their social computing vision.

Guest Author: Mark Rackley
The SharePoint Hillbilly
Everybody dance now!
Everyone loves a good remix…  So… By far my most popular blog post is my entry Creating a SharePoint List Parent / Child Relationship – Out of the Box. I am thrilled that so many have found it useful.  However, several questions [...]

When we first started our SharePoint development efforts we had a requirement to write an application to track issues and projects as well as log time against them. All of our development had to be Out of the Box because of the development constraints with Custom development and well, because at the time we didn’t really know what we were doing. However, a couple of things came out of this development effort which I think will actually come in handy. One of these was creating a Parent / Child relationship between lists so that we could track hours for a project or issue.

I also reject the “it’s already been done” argument. So what if it was? The terrible consequence is that people who are looking up your topic via bing will now find two or five or a dozen articles. Who cares? I always prefer to find several articles on the same topic when I go searching the tubes for stuff. Different points of view, different writing styles, different approaches to the same problem – they all help me understand what I need. In my opinion, the community is no where close to reaching a saturation point on good quality blog articles on any topic in the SharePoint world.