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Hiding the Site Settings area
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One thing that I dislike about SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows
SharePoint Services is that it does not hide the things that a person doesn't
have access to unless you develop something on your own or use third party
webparts such as those that CorasWorks
provides. One of the easiest but most effective things that I like to do is
hide the site settings area that usually displays on the top navigation bar.
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To do this open FrontPage 2003 and then open the site you wish to edit in
FrontPage 2003. On the bottom tabs of the site in FrontPage select the
navigation tab. In the flow chart that displays, delete the site settings
area. That will delete the link from displaying on all of the navigation
areas. Then in the panel on the left right click on the URL of the site at the
top, select new->folder and name it something with an underscore in front of
it (i.e. “_admin”). When you are done creating the folder right click on the
newly created folder and select new->blank page, name the page default.aspx
so that it will execute by default in the folder.
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Click the name of the new page so that it opens in the main area of
FrontPage. On the page create a table of three rows and two columns. The first
column is to contain a picture if you so desire. The SharePoint standard
pictures are located in “/_layouts/images” from your site. In the next column
add three sections that you use a lot in SharePoint. They are listed below with
their location from the page you just created:
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- Create “../_layouts/1033/create.aspx“
- Site Settings “../_layouts/1033/settings.aspx”
- View Documents and Lists “../_layouts/1033/viewlsts.aspx”
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To access this page after you have created it simply add “/_admin” to the end
of the URL for the site, just as if you were accessing a folder in a website.
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