Monthly Archives: April 2006

SharePoint 2007: A first look at the CSS

Those of us that have been working in the trenches doing customization work for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 are quite familiar with the old CSS structure: CSS in WSS 2.0 + SPS 2003 OWS.CSS (Global

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SharePoint 2007: It's the little things

Sometimes it is the little things that count. Subtle things like this RSS icon show that Microsoft can not only play well with others, but also be willing to adopt existing standards.

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SharePoint 2007: Know your limits

The first limit I have uncovered in my SharePoint 2007 Reasearch/Testing is a limit of “50 Web Parts Per Page”.

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Looking for IE Add-ons?

If you are looking for add-ons for Internet Explorer a new site has been released to make finding them easy.

Posted in CSS and Usability, Product Reviews, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007

SharePoint 2007 and Print

While rummaging the CORE – stylesheet – in 2007 I unconvered an area where there are efforts being made to make pages more print-friendly by hiding some of the un-needed elements. No idea how much of this will exist in

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Internet Explorer Beta 2

The IE Beta 2 has been released. This is not the preview, it’s the real deal.

Posted in CSS and Usability, Product Reviews, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007

Internet Explorer 7 and Hacks by Dave Shea

Great write-up from Dave Shea, one of my favorite web-standards advocates. This one entitled Stop Hacking or Be Stopped Teaser: With the imminent launch of IE7 your usual CSS hacking methods are going to fail. If you want to save

Posted in CSS and Usability, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007

SharePoint 2007 + Accessibility

I just read the SharePoint Team has been putting some focus on accessibility which is awesome news. The timing is incredibly ironic as I am currently involved in a SharePoint project (SPS2003+WSS2.0) that has some blind users. The client will

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Quest Software's Discovery Wizard for SharePoint

There has been a lot of buzz around the SharePoint community recently about the recent release of Quest Software‘s SharePoint Discovery Wizard. Amanda and I had the opportunity to work with Quest on a SharePoint project and they were a

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SharePoint Designer 2007

Serge has a great post on SharePoint Designer 2007 with WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003. Here is a little teaser from his blog: Master pages SharePoint Designer has the capabilities to design a master page through File – New –

Posted in ASP.NET 2.0, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007