Stumbled across a funny little problem with SharePoint and Firefox today. Turns out that with some master pages, Firefox has a problem responding to the “enter key” when using the SearchBoxEx control. In these cases, hitting enter just refreshes the…
John Ross and I presented “Demystifying SharePoint Branding” as a half day presentation for SPTechCon Boston 2009 yesterday. We had a great turnout and hopefully everyone got a good introduction to the SharePoint branding process. The slides and the code…
Ran into a very strange “perfect storm” type of error in SharePoint tonight. When a custom master page is applied, editing a list in Datasheet View causes IE to just hang. The thread goes bananas and you have to fight…
If you live under a rock you may have missed all the news lately about the release of Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) (more info on SP2 here). Among the…
I have put together a quick and dirty example of using the XML Web Part to display and style your Twitter RSS feed in a SharePoint page. 100% of the work is done in XSLT, all you have to do…
Microsoft has finally announced that they will be pushing automatic updates to IE8 for PC’s that are currently running IE6 or IE7 (more info here). This is great news, as I had a very long winded post already typed out…
Just a quick note to point out some upcoming training in Cincinnati, OH. On July 2nd, SharePoint911 will be offering a SharePoint Planning and Governance class as well as a Business Users Guide to SharePoint Server 2007. SharePoint911 Training
With the official release of Internet Explorer 8, many people are starting to test their custom SharePoint branding in the new browser. IE8 is an interesting animal in that it decides its rendering engine based on certain criteria in your…
These new themes are pretty darn good, I especially like “Construction”, “Contoso”, and “OARP”. I could see them being changed up and used for a lot of company intranets. I do wish they would have packaged them as a WSP…
One thing that I have never fully understood was why the Enable Quick Launch menu item doesn’t actually disable the quick launch menu in any master pages other than the default.master (To find this menu click Site Actions > Site…