Hide Left Navigation Menu

Leverage Asp.Net 2.0 Functionality

To hide the left navigation menu on your customized or default Master Page one things will have to be done:

1. Create or Modify a Page Layout.

On the Page Layout, simply overwrite the Content Place holder "Asp:PlaceHolderLeftNavBar".

Then with some additional styling you will have a full page layout with no left nav-bar. Simple and efficient and pure ASP.NET.

Example

Place this in your PageLayout.aspx file.

<asp:Conent ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"/>

Learning Structure

I am in the works of figuring out how in the world Sharepoints (MOS 2007)look and feel is engineered. I am talking about the "simplicity" of styling Sharepoint.

Sharepoint's rendered interface is comprised of stylesheets and a MasterPage. Since Sharepoint sites are structured in a Hierarchy, it is important to have a root level stylesheet that feeds the remaining site masterpages.

My Goal is to compose my own Master page and stylesheet. I am not sure how flexible that task will be, but I will be sure to leave notes whenever I figure my way around something I stumbled upon.

I am excited about diving into this one! If anyone has any great ideas feel free to leave a comment.