Doing simple adjustments to the Sharepoint Portal Area pages

Working your way through the Sharepoint css classes is not fun. I just spent several hours trying to accomplish the following:

• Change portal logo
• Change background color behind the logo to dark blue
• Change color of the navigation bar and search bar to light blue (no gradient)
• Change gradient color in the left navigation pane to light grey
• Change webpart header gradient to light grey

Straight forward? No, not really. Simply locating the main elements is not too much trouble, but the tiny elements and borders is painful. This helpful script aided me in the detective work.

First you change the portal logo, and assign a custom stylesheet through the Sharepoint administration interface. Then you'll need to make a copy of a set of gifs in the layouts folder and edit them to right color. Then add a set of stylesheet overrides to your custom stylesheet.

The only thing I could not get working was switching places between the portal logo and the "MySite - Site Settings - Help" links. That seems impossible although Serge is on the track of something.