Zach Rosenfield

Hello,

can you share the steps you had to take to setup the security/access permissions for the custom masterpage?

I am using a very cumbersome workaround right now to get the masterpage into SharePoint (basically, testing in .NET then uploading it through MasterPage gallery.

Even though I am the Farm Administrator and have all permissions on the site collection, SharePoint Designer won't let me modify (let alone create) the master page (I get access denied when I follow that route to create the master page).

During runtime, I am getting ".this page cannot be loaded". When I switch back to default.master, my custom page loads without a hitch. Note that I have a usercontrol on my custom page, but like I said, everything loads fine with a default.master. With my own master page, it is a no g because page cannot be loaded, sometimes with an error message that page class associated with my custom masterpage is not "safe"; the DLL with the custom master page is signed, and in GAC.

Thank you in advance for any hint.

Sorry to say but I used SharePoint Designer.  There is a setting that your administrator controls to allow SPD editing (a lot of admins turn it off as SPD will "unghost" your sites pages which can be an administrative nightmare during upgrades), but you can ask your admin to allow SPD editing on your site collection.

Hi ,i was totally impressed with  your blog design.I really liked the way the master page looks like.I am basically new to sharepoint.I am afraid to modify the maser page as it wld affect my production server web application.CAn u pls share the design for this master page sothat it will be helpful for me.

Regards,
Sriram