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It's time to deliver something back to the community!

In a project I recently worked in I found out the hard way that it wasn't possible to save a Meeting workspace (MW) as a custom template to recreate sites from. I also found out through Bing that I wasn't alone in my discovery :)

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Radiant Blogger is a newly-developed theme for SharePoint 2010 Blog site. It’s a perfect theme for small to mid-size business intranets and can be used for virtually any type of business.

 

Download the…

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Hi Friends,

 

Here is my site (http://www.nxg-dzigns.com/) provides you FREE SharePoint 2010 Skins (master pages), which makes your work simpler. :)

 

Have a try !

One of my customers stumbles upon a strange bug in SharePoint that relies on the list views in combination with meta data and the meta data Navigation. In a special case the list view returns a false result.

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SharePoint 2010 tip 1: Prerequisites

SharePoint servers have a set of prerequisites that you need to have installed first on any server you want to run SharPoint. These include the Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0, the Sync Framework Runtime 1.0, and various hotfixes. The prerequisites are typically installed through an Internet connection your server will most likely have.

However, there are times when that server may not have an outside connection to the Internet or you may…

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Something that a "non web design savvy" administrator can do to "pretty" up their SharePoint 2010 site is to change the theme (the theme controls the fonts and colours of the site) and this is easily done with Microsoft PowerPoint.  It is very simple to do and it really helps when you cannot find one of the standard themes in SharePoint to fit your company / personal colours.

So Lets' begin:

Step 1:

Open up MS PowerPoint and open up a blank presentation…

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This blog post was originally from my own blog http://www.n8d.at/blog/sharepoint-2010/use-font-face-in-rich-text-editor-of-sharepoint-2010

In modern web design many sites use web fonts. Nearly since the beginning of the Internet there were always intentions to bring desktop fonts to the web. Nowadays the support for web…

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If you watched 15 minutes SharePoint 2010 branding session on this site and want to learn how to package your branding as a professional looking WSP package - you will find this screencast right up your alley

 

Enjoy!

 

 

SharePoint 2010 Branding with Visual Studio from…

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You know how sometimes your client or boss tells you - "I like it how they did their website - make ours look similar".



Whether its an intranet or public site, the challenge is always the same - you don't have a source code and viewing page source doesn't provide full source.



Even if you're asked to mimic a piece of the functionality - a menu or a navigation item - its quite time consuming to figure out the details of implementation. Let alone elements that utilize… Continue

Hi

 

SharePoint has become key to our business but it looks terrible, I have seen some amazing SharePoint sites and know it can be done but we do not have the skills. So I am appealing to this group of sharepoint designers for help. I am looking for an independent sharepoint designer we can employ either local or remote to re-design our site.

 

our corprate design is www.redstor.com and my contact…

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So Reata Pharmaceuticals hasn't implemented 2010 yet, but plans for it are in effect for next year! Thanks to Mary, I am so excited to get it so I can play!!!!!

It's been a while since I last wrote a blog here in sharepointdesigners.net so now It´s time to a update on the past and the future.



SharePoint Designers performing well on its own and run by its members, even if I put some time on administration and more. Do you have ideas or if you in one way or another want to help the community, please let me know.



Apart from that I sometimes write blogs here on sharepointdesigners.net, I´m most active on my regular word press blog,… Continue

I've been trying to add some meta tags in the master page as descriptors and keywords. These meta tags are site dependent. i.e. each site has it own set of keywords.

Any suggestions?

Hey Gang,

I'm a freelance Brand consultant dealing with internal Brand Experience and SharePoint is the platform I always have to give advice on. I am not technical so I have joined your group to find friends to help get the job done.

Andre

Announcing SharePoint Server 2010 Preliminary System Requirements

We’ve heard loud and clear that you want system requirements information as early as possible to assist in your budgeting and planning, so today we’re happy to announce (and confirm) some preliminary system requirements for SharePoint Server 2010:



SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.

SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.

SharePoint Server 2010… Continue

Microsoft will offer SharePoint Designer 2007 free of charge, as a download April 1, 2009.

It´s not yet a formal announcement from any of Microsoft site, but you should soon be able to download it

from Microsoft SharePoint designer.



This i what i think a really nice move from Microsoft, release the

power of SharePoint!

And what´s next? SPD will be shipped together with the next version of SharePoint.

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You have probably visited a number of public Web sites which have the function "Change text size", where you visitors can influence the text size or contrast as shown on the site.





Click on Black to load CSS-black, or click on Blue to load CSS-blue.



The technology behind this has many good uses in SharePoint, you can, for example, build your design with fixed width but still let the user determine the width of the content as needed. Other ways to… Continue

Do you want to make some style to the webpartheaders, then i hope this post will give you some inspiration. Webparts often rendering throung HTML-tables, so because of that i had to use rows (TR) and (TD) in this CSS.



In this example every webparts in your SharePoint pages who make use of this CSS will be like the image below. You can if you want, have for example three different titlebar colors in the same page, if you instead use different partstyles for each webpartzone in your… Continue