Matthew McDermott, MVP

General ramblings from a SharePoint MVP about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
Sep27

Mobile People Search

Every so often I get asked about creating a corporate phonebook or mobile phonebook for SharePoint. I have been doing a lot of planning sessions this week and needed something creative to do, so here's something fun. I decided to create a lightweight people search page for mobile devices.   I created the page starting with an regular ASPX page. After adding a web part zone I dropped a Peopl...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 27 Sep 2008 09:00.
1 Comment | Categories: CSS, Search

 
Oct25

Using the IE Developer toolbar

One of the indispensible tools that use for changing the CSS and "fixing" problems on a SharePoint site is the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. There a many articles on how to use this tool. I wanted to point out that specifically for SharePoint this is a great tool for determining how and why a style sheet is behaving or misbehaving. Recently I was asked why the keywords and be...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 25 Oct 2007 05:25.
0 Comments | Categories: CSS, Web Publishing

 
Sep8

Be Strict with your HTML

I have been learning a lot about CSS and XHTML. One of my first challenges was simply getting SharePoint Designer to use XHTML Strict as the default. Turns out the smarties at Microsoft already thought of this. Here's how to set the default document type for your pages.  ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 8 Sep 2007 05:05.
0 Comments | Categories: CSS, XHTML