sharepoint announcement web part

Question

I'm using SharePoint 2007,

and I'm using the announcement web part. I have writed long description in the announcement web part.

the default possibility, sharepoint display 3 line from the announcement within the page and in order to read all the rest I need to enter the announcement.

1. How can I dispaly all the announcement in the site page?
2. Can control the announcement background and border color?
3. How can I let a few users add announcements and prevent all the rest for doing it?

Answer 1

1. You can create your own views to show the full body of the announcement. You can even do something like this content slider I wrote on NothingbutSharePoint.
2. To control the BG color, you'll need to find the class that is applied to the announcement background and override the style with a CEWP and style tags.
3. Give the desired users who you want to add announcements contribute permissions to the list and give everyone else read permissio.