SharePoint Office Pocket Guide

Changing Pages

Administrators and web designers can change the appearance of pages on the SharePoint site by applying themes, by designing an existing page, or by using FrontPage. Table 2-2 summarizes those different techniques.

Table 2-2. Ways to change the look of SharePoint pages

Technique	Summary
Themes	Change the fonts and color scheme for all pages on a site
Design a page	Add, move, or delete web parts on a page through the browser
FrontPage 2003	Significantly change the content or appearance of a page, or create new pages on the site

To apply a theme, click Site Settings → "Apply Theme to site" and choose a theme. Themes only affect the current site. Subsites and workspaces subordinate to the site are not affected.

To design a page, click Modify Shared Page → "Design this page", in the upper-right corner (Figure 2-2). SharePoint displays the page in edit mode, showing the web part zones. You can drag web parts from one zone to another or select Modify Shared Web Parts to change a web part.

Figure 2-2. Changing a page through the browser

This technique is handy for minor modifications, such as changing the text in a titlebar of a web part. For example, to change the "Announcements" title bar in Figure 2-2 to "Quote of the day," you would do the following:

1. Click Modify Shared Page → Modify Shared Web Parts → Announcements. SharePoint displays the Announcements web part in edit ...