It says to go to site  ACTIONS > SITE SETTINGS > LOOK AND FEEL >
NAVIGATION

I don't have a 'NAVIGATION' option. My Look and Feel menu  looks like
this:

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Look and Feel
Title, description, and icon
Tree view
Site theme
Top link bar
Quick Launch
Save site as template
Reset to site definition

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What would have cuased me to not see the NAVIGATION option on any of my
sites?

The navigation  option will only exist on Publishing Sites. If you have
MOSS installed, you can go to site  Settings, Site Admin, Site Features
and turn on Publishing in WSS team sites. Otherwise, you are stuck with
the WSS Top Link Bar and Quick Launch Nav settings.

Mystery solved! Thanks, Ben! (though I suppose a new mystery is why is
this option only available on Publishing Sites...)

So, what would be the main con of making team sites publishing sites?
Are we doubling our storage needs by doing so (for keeping all the draft
versions)?

If you are stuck with WSS, it's not terribly difficult to customize the
tab navigation  using a custom master page  and code. I think I have an
example I wrote somewhere I could dig up if you're interested.

We are looking into options  for a drop-down  menu in a Server 2007
setup where Publishing is not turned on. Does anyone have a code
snippet they could share or any suggestions for implementing this?

If you mean drop downs and flyouts on the Top navigation  Bar and the
QuickLaunch Bar then this can be achieved even in Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0 simply by modifying the properties of the SitemapProviders
and ASPMENU controls. When Publishing is turned on you have a UI
interface to make these changes programmatically, but you can do the
same thing by editing the attributes of the controls on the Master Page.
Here's what to look for:

Search for ASPMENU. You will find  two controls. One is the Top Nav Bar
and the other is the Quicklaunch. You can tell which is which by
checking the ID attribute. If you modify the values for the
StaticDisplayLevels and MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels attributes you can
have SharePoint display dropdown and Flyout menus.

You might want to take a look at the following blog to find out more
about some of the attributes that can be used in the master page.

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I know the page  is about a publishing site, but these controls are used
in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as well.

One quick addition. You won't be able to turn on publishing in Site
Features until you've turned on Publishing Infrastructure in Site Collection
Features. For publishing to work you need both.

Are you using MOSS or WSS? The menu  item should appear from
the following menus:

Site Actions > site  Settings > Modify Navigation

Also this navigation  option appears from the portal level. You need to be at
this level to use it. If you are further down the hierarchy then you will
not get this option. You can modify the navigation at a site level, but that
is not the page  you require.

When we want to add a custom button to a list toolbar we can add it by using a feature.But when we are activating the feature it will be apply to the scope secified, so all the lists present inside the scope will have a button added to it's toolbar. But if we want to add the button to a particular list then we need to specify the content type ID of the list.

To get the content type id of a list we need to follow these steps:

1. go to the list =>Settings=>List Settings=>Advance Settings=>click yes to the allow management content type
=>ok=>Now in the list setting page  you will see a content type click the content type =>In the url you will see a value like

"ctype=0x010046759B602A72384BB7F4C50DEA9EE828"

This is the content type id for the list.

2. Now if you want to get it programatically then you can use this one:

oSPWeb.Lists["listname"].ContentTypes[0].Id.ToString();

Thanks,
Bijayani
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