Matthew McDermott

Matthew is a principal consultant for Catapult Systems. A Microsoft MVP (SharePoint Server), Matthew blogs about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.

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MVP Blogs

May25

Linux Browser Testing Made Easy

Every once in a while I have a client that requires more extensive browser testing. For most Windows-based browsers I have them installed locally or run a VPC with them installed. I am not a Linux expert by any means so the thought of standing up a particular flavor of Linux to support testing was not appealing. Then I found UNetbootin the Universal Netboot Installer. (http://unetbootin.sourcefor...

Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 25 May 2009 07:52.

0 Comments | Categories: CSS, Tools, Web Publishing

Oct26

SharePoint Menu Alternative

I was recently working with a colleague who posed the following question: "How can I wrap the top navigation rather than scroll it off screen?" My follow up question was: "Why on earth would you ever have a top navigation that was that wide?" To which he answered: "Don't ask" So, ours is not to ask why... I tried several different CSS approaches using the Sha...

Posted by Matthew McDermott on Sunday, 26 Oct 2008 10:48.

5 Comments | Categories: CSS, Development, Web Publishing

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.

5 Comments | Categories: CSS, Search, My Sites

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. ...