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420 14.6 Site Title, Description, and Icon

This method allows you to keep all your branding files together in one

place, making future branding updates much simpler. Removal of all the

templates from site theme list would prevent users from applying a theme

and ultimately customizing/unghosting theme files through SharePoint

Designer 2007. But what if you want to use multiple themes throughout var-

ious sites in your site collection? You can use the same method, but apply dif-

ferent alternate CSS URL settings to different sites. Also, instead of storing

the theme files on the file system of the Web server, upload all the files to a

folder in the styles library and take advantage of all the versioning features of

SharePoint, in addition to centralized management of the files in the case

where you have multiple front-end Web servers in your deployment.

14.6 Site Title, Description, and Icon

By default, the site title and site description are populated by settings speci-

fied during site creation. The default logo of the site is not definable during

this process, and for most sites the logo is typically set to /_layouts/images/

titlegraphic.gif, which is the default Microsoft site logo. After site creation,

you can change the title of your site, the description of your site and the icon

associated with your site. Figure 14.35 shows the settings page for these

properties in the root site of our collaboration portal, and Figure 14.36

shows the result of applying these settings.

Figure 14.35

Setting the title,

description and

site logo.