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.

I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”

I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”

I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”

I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”

During the course of a customization and branding effort in SharePoint you are likely to find that you want to style web parts to look different from (Dare I say better than?) the stylistic treatment default to SharePoint.

This is a jQuery script I wrote that looks at each web part on the page and, based on each web part’s chrome setting, adds containers around the web parts.

I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box, generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”

I have a client that wanted to convert their outdated HTML district website to an external facing SharePoint portal. The client was brand new to SharePoint and brought me in to build an external facing portal using MOSS 2007 Enterprise.