Two homes have been transformed by local artists into a large funnel like vortex that starts in one home and ends in the other. The artists removed the exterior wood from the house and used it to create a vortex. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2005
Metalogix Migration Manager – for MCMS and SharePoint
While at TechEd I sat in on a demo for Metalogix Migration Manager and was impressed with this tool. Metalogix has two tools, one for MCMS and one for SharePoint. I saw the demo for SharePoint. Through one easy file explorer like interface it allows you browse and select content to migrate to SharePoint. Continue reading
MCMS Search Options
At TechEd this year, Arpan Shah shared some MCMS search vendors: Continue reading
SharePoint Questionnaire – What we ask our prospective SharePoint site owners
I recently replied to a post on the Mindsharp SharePoint Discussion Group about building a SharePoint questionnaire. I was surprised at the number of requests I got for more information about the questions we ask our prospective SharePoint site owners when in the initial requirements gathering phase. So I have posted what we ask people in this article. One thing to note is that in our SharePoint environment we do not foster a free-for-all for site creation. Continue reading
SharePoint Portal Area Permissions Issue and Fix
Todd Bleeker is my new hero! While at TechEd, he graciously spent quite some time with me fixing a permissions issue I was having with my SharePoint portal. This probably isn’t a common problem, but definitely worth putting info out there in case someone else is having the same issue. Todd made my day and I am very grateful!!! Continue reading
What’s New in Office 12 and the Next Version of SharePoint?
Bill English has a very informative post about the next version of SharePoint complete with article references. This is a great post.
» What’s New in Office 12 and the Next Version of SharePoint?
Group your CSS classes and streamline your stylesheet
A great practice for CSS is to group CSS classes/IDs together and list out common attributes only once. This streamlines your CSS code and makes for easier maintenance. For example if you have 5 classes/IDs that share the same font attributes, list the 5 classes/IDs together separated by commas with the attributes listed once instead of listing everything out 5 separate times. If the class/ID has additional style attributes it needs, just list the class/ID name out again with the unique attributes. For example: Continue reading
Adjust the spacing in the paragraph tag through CSS
I often get asked how to custom adjust the automatic spacing added around a paragraph of text in HTML when using the
<P>tag. You can use the margin attribute and evenly or unevenly adjust the spacing. For example: Continue reading
Six Best Practices for MCMS
In the TechEd “Best Practices for Designing and Building Content Management Server Solutions” session presented by Arpan Shah from Microsoft, he went over six best practices for MCMS installs: Continue reading
SharePoint tip – Link to tutorials from site template
At the TechEd “Vertical Industry and Role-Based Templates for SharePoint Products and Technologies” session I got a neat tip from the presenter Alex Paytuvi from Quilogy… Continue reading