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Are you a web designer? Want to get sponsored?

I'm happy to announce that in our company we're making effort to contribute to open source and design community. We're looking to sponsor web designs that will be free to use. If you are interested, you can find more information on Web Designers Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Creating XHTML compliant ASP.Net server controls

ASP.Net is great but many of the controls use table tags when they render. I am currently in the process of developing some Internet sites using MOSS 2007 which need to meet accessibility guidelines so these controls, in their out of the box state, are Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

MOSS 2007 - CSS Crackers!

There is a nasty gotcha in MOSS SharePoint CSS registration. It doesn't matter what order you register your css files, they will be rendered in the html in alphabetical order! Not very helpful... Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Potential Tool for Updating SharePoint's UI

I haven't gotten a chance to play with this yet, but if you're looking for something to help you change the look and feel of your SharePoint installation's user interface, you might want to take a look at the SharePoint Skinner: http://www.elumenotion.com/default.aspx This tool was recently released by Elumenotion, and it looks like it is free to use (it's also posted on CodePlex, so I'm betting that it is indeed free). I've downloaded the zip file, but haven't gotten a chance to install it and work with it yet. From what I'm seeing on Elumenation's site, the tool is intended to help you manipulate the CSS styles of your SharePoint site, meaning you can easily update the colors and images displayed on the site. I like the approach, but just keep in mind that if you're looking for something that will make your SharePoint site not look like a SharePoint site it doesn't look like the SharePoint Skinner going to do it for you on its own. But, it could be a pretty handy auxiliary tool in your site design toolkit. Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Overriding core.css in MOSS 2007

So you are trying to use a custom css in your master page but the nice shiny font you are trying to display isn't showing up! The reason for this is that core.css will be called after your custom css file leaving your text displaying as verdana or Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Customisation - steady progress

It's been a while since I last blogged - with the work I am doing at the moment I haven't had time! I have been given the task of creating new site definitions complete with branding and functionality. I'm still waiting to go on my SharePoint Designer course but having played with my virtual environment for the past month I have picked up quite a bit So far I have created a new site definition based on STS unde SiteTemplates, I have managed to create new preview images and got a new tab to appear on the New SharePoint Site page. I was quite pleased with myself when it all worked. Then I applied a custom master page to the new site definition by changing ONET.XML in my new site definition's XML directory. Following that I started playing around adding new Web Part Zones and seeing how everything linked together. ONET.XML defines the initial content that is displayed in the default.aspx page of your new site. I've also modified custom.master so that additional options are available in the top right hand corner navigation bar. So far it all works What's next? Well, I need to create site definitions for wikis, blogs etc all by the end of next week! One thing I haven't worked out how to do is apply my own custom css file - I had problems when I tried to apply an alternate css file through the SharePoint Site Settings pages. There has to be a better way of applying your own CSS file so that it is applied after CORE.CSS, maybe someone will work it out. One...

Great tools for web developers pt. 3

The third in the series of tools for web developers is for the ones that don't want or don't have the option to install any software or addons and just need a quick access to a tool for inspecting DOM 1. Mouseover DOM inspector v. 2 - MODIv2 This Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Great tools for web developers pt. 2

In my previous post I've presented a tool that I find very useful when debugging display, creating javascript related to HTML DOM, etc. The tool is intended for Internet Explorer. The FireFox users aren't deprived of such tools either. There are Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Using Firebug to Manage CSS Effectively

I often talk about the benefits of using Firebug for Firefox in the MSDN Design and Customization Forums . Rather than try to type out a long winded article on why it rules, I found a video that should help to convince non believers that it is truly superior to the IE Developers Toolbar: Firebug 1.0 Beta Screencast by Jesse Newland Takes a little bit of time to download the video, but its worth it. Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Great tools for web developers pt.1

Many times to refference or change the the element's properties in a DOM of a web page, I was just going crazy. Especially in SharePoint this can be difficult, because some elements are nested DEEP within other elements (table > div > div > Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

My First SharePoint Blog

Hey all, I am an IT Consultant with Levi, Ray, and Shoup, Inc. I attended their Portal University in July - October '05 and have worked with LRS as a SharePoint Consultant ever since. I have been on numerous successful engagements deploying SharePoint 2003, MOSS 2007, InfoPath 2003 and 2007. I have a strong foundation in many languages including but not limited to SQL, C#, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, ASP.NET. I have worked with SharePoint...

Easy way of Editing Customized Theme in MOSS 2007

Recently, I have observed that many MOSS 2007 and/or WSS 3.0 administrators want to apply their custom theme to site collections. In my opinion, this is a good practice because you never want to edit the "core.css" file - it is just stupid :) For those who still want to modify the "core.css" file in spite of my advice, the file is in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS...

Display CSS Classes within SharePoint

I'm posting this just because I'm getting tired of losing the script... This is a great script written by Microsoft to reveal CSS classes within SharePoint. Taken from: ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms438349.aspx ) <script language="jscript"> function ClassInfo() { if (window.event.srcElement.className != null) { stsclass.innerText = window.event.srcElement.className; } else { stsclass.innerText = "";...