SharePoint

On 2nd April Microsoft announced that SharePoint Designer is no longer available as part of volume licencing, but as a free download. This is great news since SharePoint Designer is a great tool for working with SharePoint and non-SharePoint sites. Click here to see the video interview with Tom Rizzo
or more importantly:
click here to download [...]

I was already writing about the problem of SharePoint filtering out the embed code for Flash content and a workaround to this issue.  
There were some questions in the comments and also maybe the instructions weren’t quite clear, so I’ve made a screencast showing the entire process.  
Sorry [...]

If you need a quick fix on one of your photos or images, and you don’t want to install any additional software on your computer, you can use the online PhotoShop Express. Check Jose’s review and links to the solution. It’s free and it’s very good.

But there is another online service for modifying [...]

A links list in SharePoint has an interesting functionality – to change the order of items.

I’ve tried and this functionality can be applied to all the lists and used in a data view. Let’s go in order.

To reorder the list go to _layouts/reorder.aspx?list={list_guid} in the same site. If you [...]

In my previous post I’ve explained how to pass parameters from URL to use in a Data View. There is another very useful way: – using Cookies. The process is very similar, using SharePoint Designer:

1. To read the cookie value and use it as a parameter:
Open the properties pane of the XSLT Data View and select [...]

Yesterday evening my laptop with Vista already got too slow for normal work that I started to think about reinstalling. But instead I decided to use the performance tools in control panel and I made serious maintenance plus I turned off some features like visual styles.

An improvment in performance was immediate. And then suddenly [...]

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 thing is pure JavaScript, DHTML and CSS so [...]

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 two tools available:
 
1. Web developer toolbar for Mozilla Firefox
 
It offers quite a wide array of tools for [...]

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 > div > … > input).

You can help yourself a bit with [...]

I started to create my first ajax-like web application and I was looking a good site, where to find animated gifs.

After a while I’ve found a great site, which not only offers animates gifs, but actually you can generate the loader alone, selecting the foreground, background and style of the preloader.

Click here to get (generate) [...]