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• Which Doctype to use with SharePoint 2007?

  Designing and developing accessible web sites on top of SharePoint 2007 gets more and more attention in the community. But the more developers try to reach the required accessibility or standards compliancy level, the more challenges they face and the... Posted Jan 22 2008, 03:57 PM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Accessibility, SharePoint Best Practices

• SharePoint 2007 redirect solved: using 301 instead of 302 redirects

  Each time you request a Site Collection ( http://domain/ ) or a Site ( http://domain/foo/ ) of your Publishing Site you get redirected to the .aspx">http://domain/Pages/<WelcomePage>.aspx . SharePoint 2007 uses the 302 header (location temporarily... Posted Jan 21 2008, 10:46 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, SharePoint customization, Accessibility, SharePoint Best Practices

• The impact of developing an accessible web site in SharePoint 2007

  The development process of a typical Web Content Management solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 consists of three main areas: User Experience, Functionality and Deployment. The development process begins mostly with designing the... Posted Jan 19 2008, 05:12 PM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Accessibility

• Automatically marking up abbreviations and acronyms in SharePoint 2007

  Accessibility is a broad term and reaches way beyond the standards compliant code only. Accessibility is in my belief a set of features improving the understanding of information presented by an information system. I have to admit though compliant and... Posted Jan 11 2008, 05:35 PM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with no comments Filed under: Web Content Management, Accessibility, SharePoint Best Practices

• Automatically generating a hierarchical Title in <title> element

  Recently while working on an Internet facing web site for one of our customers I thought of creating a control which would automatically create a hierarchical Title in the <title> element, like: Site Collection - Current Site - Current Page. Standard... Posted Jan 06 2008, 06:33 PM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with no comments Filed under: Web Content Management, Page Layouts, SharePoint customization, Accessibility, SharePoint Best Practices

• W3C Validator for SharePoint 2007

  SharePoint 2007 is a very extensible development platform. Thanks to its flexibility the developers keep coming with new features which extend the user experience. One of the areas where the things are still missing is the Web Content Management: accessibility... Posted Dec 15 2007, 03:55 PM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, SharePoint customization, Accessibility

• Extending the SharePoint:FieldValue WebControl

  How many times did you try to incorporate some extra rules or formatting into Page Layouts? Formatting a date is just one of the many examples solving which can cause you spent many hours trying to using the out-of-the-box available controls. The SharePoint... Posted Dec 09 2007, 10:59 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Page Layouts, SharePoint customization, SharePoint Programmatically

• Imtech Test Content Generator v1.3.0.0 (free SharePoint 2007 tool)

  Testing the editors area in SharePoint 2007 isn't really convenient. Image you would like to check whether the overview Web Part you have made really shows 100 items per page. Copying the items in the Explorer View might be a solution, still it's... Posted Dec 07 2007, 07:58 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tools, Web Content Management, SharePoint Tools

• Webrichtlijnen (WCAG 1.0 Priority 2+) Accessibility in SharePoint 2007

  Last Thursday I gave a presentation about accessibility in SharePoint 2007: the existing challenges and my approach to it. I have been invited by the Dutch Information Worker User Group to share my experience with other Dutch developers. Standing on the... Posted Dec 01 2007, 10:47 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Accessibility

• First 100% Webrichtlijnen (WCAG 1.0 Priority 2+) compliant SharePoint site - almost there

  As I have recently mentioned, here at Imtech ICT Business Solutions we are busy with first 100% Webrichtlijnen compliant Internet facing web site based on SharePoint 2007. Earlier this week we have finished the development en begun testing the solution... Posted Nov 29 2007, 11:08 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Accessibility

• PlaceHolderPageTitle is the root of all evil

  Recently we have been experiencing some serious problems while working on our newest project. As we needed a customized version of the Publishing Portal template we have made a new version adjusted to our needs. What we needed to do is to reference the... Posted Nov 19 2007, 10:28 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Page Layouts, SharePoint customization, Chrome

• ASP.NET events can cause troubles

  ...if you are developing a Webrichtlijnen compliant website in ASP.NET or let's say in... SharePoint 2007! Recently a new version of the Webrichtlijnen on-line quick scan tool has been released. Not that long ago I have reported that my concept on... Posted Nov 17 2007, 11:50 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with no comments Filed under: Web Content Management, .NET, Accessibility

• Another Internet facing website based on SharePoint 2007

  ...Coming soon - really soon. Last week we have started realising a new project for one of our customers: an Internet facing website based on SharePoint's 2007 WCM. It would've been 'just another' plain SharePoint 2007 WCM solution, but... Posted Nov 14 2007, 05:51 PM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Accessibility, SharePoint solutions

• CSS causes JavaScript error while moving Web Parts in edit mode

  While working on an Internet facing Web Content Management SharePoint 2007 solution for one of our customers Erik has stumbled upon an interesting by-design feature in SharePoint 2007. At some point he has noticed that he couldn’t move Web Parts anymore... Posted Nov 01 2007, 09:26 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 29 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management

• Accessible SharePoint 2007: It's now officially 100% Webrichtlijnen(NL)/WCAG compliant

  Yesterday I have found out that the bug we have found while testing our compliancy toolkit, is fixed. What you see now is the nice green 100%. After I have published the first post about our SharePoint Compliancy toolkit I have realised that I haven't... Posted Oct 24 2007, 05:25 PM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, Accessibility

• Accessible Web Content Management Solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a new web development platform of Microsoft. Its rich framework supports both collaboration features and designing, creating and delivering Web Content Management solutions. Many of these are targeted to become... Posted Oct 20 2007, 01:00 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, SharePoint customization, Accessibility

• New internet-facing MOSS website goes live

  The Tech MOSS Team has build the new MOSS internet-facing for SURF ( http://www.surf.nl ) and we are very proud that it is live! The design was done by Uselab ( http://www.uselab.com ). Some technical highlights of this website are: - Seperate website... Posted Sep 07 2007, 01:51 PM by john.bruin with | with no comments Filed under: Web Content Management

• SharePoint Programmatically: Provisioning Lookup Fields

  Provisioning Content Type’s fields is quite straight forward when using Solutions: using Element Manifests you can define your own Content Types and their properties among which fields. Unfortunately there is one serious con to the solution Microsoft... Posted Sep 06 2007, 01:00 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, SharePoint Programmatically

• Using ~SiteCollection prefix in SharePoint CSS files

  Using CSS files is the recommended way for incorporating the chrome in a SharePoint WCM solution. Among the various definitions of the layout pieces there are also images’ references. Each such reference can be defined using an absolute of relative URL... Posted Aug 31 2007, 01:00 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Web Content Management, SharePoint customization, Chrome

• Displaying SharePoint Fields in different order than edit fields

  Some of our customers like to have the information displayed in a different way than the order of the fields within the Content Types: there is frankly a difference of the information meaning for their customers (visitors) and the Information Workers... Posted Aug 27 2007, 01:00 AM by Waldek Mastykarz with | with no comments Filed under: Web Content Management, Page Layouts