Check out my latest video diary entry concerning Sharepoint WCM:

Hi, this is David Wier.  Welcome back to my SetFocus SharePoint video diary. 

Last week, we got into the web content management section of the curriculum, finishing out the first of two SetFocus books on the subject.  This Master course has a lot of books for the different sections.  We’re expanding our learning on creating custom site definitions by adding branding items like CSS and master pages to a publishing site.  Basically, branding is just the customization of the sites so that the look and the feel of your site fits the look and feel of the brand of your company.  This is available in MOSS 2007 which is Microsoft Office SharePoint Services.  You create the look and feel through a solution and deploy the solution so it’s there whenever any new sub sites or pages get created looking the same as the rest of it.

The extent of which you can actually change the look and feel of the site using MOSS greatly exceeds that which is basic to Windows SharePoint services.  This gets pretty complicated or at least it can get pretty complicated, but at this point, we’ve already covered the basics of creating custom site definitions and templates for a SharePoint site in the past.  This section was just adding more possibility using MOSS 2007 publishing features.

Well, that’s all for now.  But I’ll see you next week at pretty much the same time, at pretty much the same place, my next video diary entry.