Her request led to creation of the Forms Portal, a SharePoint site designed to replace the Excel spreadsheet and facilitate access to its valuable data to the whole company.

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.

To get a SharePoint template that fits your processes perfectly you are going to have to make your own – and thankfully it’s exceptionally easy to do – so here’s how.

SharePoint 2010 has introduced a new type of List called the External List. The External List is used for displaying content that comes from Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Enterprise content types. Business Connectivity Services is the replacement in SharePoint 2010 for The Business Data Catalog (BDC) in SharePoint 2007.