The Sanity Point

By now, you are probably aware that SharePoint is a heavy user of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the look of your site. Hopefully, you are also aware that SharePoint Designer has (among other things) a great array of CSS editing tools. In Professional SharePoint Designer, we go into great detail on how these tools work, and many of the style elements used in a SharePoint theme. You can also find breakdowns of the classes used by SharePoint themes on Heather Solomon's site. She has a great SharePoint CSS Reference Chart, that allows you to copy snippets of the default (core.css) values of the elements for use in deriving your own theme styles.

With all of these resources, then, why am I writing yet another article on this topic? Simply because there is still more to say! In this case, I'm going to offer a few tips on connecting to the style sheet you want to edit, not only for "regular" SharePoint themes, but also for users of the Community Kit for SharePoint, Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE).  Read the whole article on my new site!