I’ve been looking for a while to find a webpart that would show all the subsites of a particular sharepoint site. If you google this, there appear to be lots of people looking for the same thing. Well, I’ve just found an old reference which, a slight update for MOSS 2007 seems to work at…
Author: Michael
My Sharepoint site templates are missing content in the wiki
(About time I started this again… beware though, you may notice a sharepoint theme developing.) SharePoint allows you to create a site template by simply saving a site as a template. This is fine, but buggy and I’ve come across some holes recently. The latest problem for me is that the site template I’m trying…
Cost effective job advertising?
I was struck by this job advert technique… Win a MacBook Pro Win this 15″ MacBook Pro Refer a friend and it’s yours! A new MacBook Pro costs £1300 – possibly the same as a single job advert in traditional print. But this way, SitePoint use a viral campaign technique which is well-targetted. I would…
Transport Direct web snippet form
From: Transport Direct – tips and tools This should get you directions to the Canterbury campus of U.o.K. Get directions by public transport and car with Transport Direct. Enter your postcode
Duke's homepage: content is not King?
CMS Watch points to a Duke University homepage redesign – see before (left) and after (right) snapshots: This is a change from content-focused design to search-focused design. As a user you might find the new search version quicker, but CMS Watch points out: only if the search engine works. The content that was there hasn’t…
How to get thumbnails of webpages automatically
This is a great little utility/tool/hack called SimpleAPI. It takes a snap of a webpage, creates a thumbnail and lets you embed it on your page. They provide all the html code so all you have to do is copy and paste it into your page/blog. Why is this important? Because a blog entry without…
How a deal is done
Found whilst looking for a screenshot solution – isn’t the web great? from: Screenshots: How a deal is done Jack, a smart businessman, talks to his son. Jack: I want you to marry a girl of my choice Son : “I will choose my own bride!” Jack: “But the girl is Bill Gates’s daughter.” Son…
How will (some of the) Web 2.0 make money?
Have you noticed? There’s quite a buzz about on the web at the moment. For me it started a while back with Gmail, went on to the things 37signals were doing, fell into Ajax, bounced into Web 2.0 and has now just exploded. New websites/webservices are launching every day. Here’s my list of personal discoveries…
What do you need to run an institution's website?
Three Tenths Of A Second . . . Originally uploaded by evilgreg3000. Some rights reserved. Well, a good team is a good start… My list of things involved in looking after an institution’s website. Feedback form – every page has a link which captures URL and user info and sends via a form. Issues tracker…
I noticed…
Just to say I noticed… Now if only someone would pull their finger out and sort out the wobbly fence eh?