I recently went through the exercise of setting up a SharePoint Records Center site from scratch as part of a proof of concept exercise for a client. Since some of the bits and pieces of the process were scattered around the Web, I recorded all of the steps in case it might help someone out there. Create…
Having done branding (meaning applying custom CSS to change colors, fonts, etc.) to quite a few MOSS Site Collections, I wanted to offer a few tips and tricks to keep things clean and easy to maintain. I’ve mentioned some of these tips before, but I wanted to get them all into one post so that…
I continue to be intrigued by Popfly, Microsoft’s "mashup engine" (for lack of a better label): Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts: 1 Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups. 2 Popfly…
After a few weeks away in France and Spain, I’m back and trawling the Web for answers to unique and diverse questions from our clients. Today I read that one of the Microsoft Web sites that I’ve found useful over the years is being phased out: GotDotNet.com. You can read the details here. We are phasing…
By default, a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) My Site page does not contain a link back to the portal it serves. This leaves users confused about how to get back to the main portal other than using the Back button in their browsers. There is a simple fix for this. From the My Site page, choose…