Changing the New! gif in a custom list

If you are implementing a custom list in a site definition, you can easily update the icon that SharePoint puts next to newly created items in a list. Instead of the New! icon, you can replace it with other gifs.

Go to your schema.xml and locate the following section:



Replace the relative src link with another image. Make sure that you provision your custom gif with your site definition to the /_layouts/1033/images folder when you redeploy your list.