Saturday, January 27, 2007

Joomla: Flash Photo Gallery - Expose

Recently in one of my Joomla sites (HE), I needed to implement a timeline, with photos for several periods. I needed a component which features a slideshow, with a slider, and which can be organized by categories / albums. If it could support video, it would be even better! And ideally, photos cannot be ripped off ;)Thank god for Expose! All the above rolled into one flash photo gallery, you can

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

SharePoint 2007: Creating several site collections

Enable Self Service Site Creation in the Central Administration (Steps Below)Log into the Central Administration Site. (Note that this is a unique site collection as well, and if you have it located on a funny port number, it is usually a good idea to add it to your My Links).Click Application Management Click Self-service site management Select the correct Web application (that step is easy to

SharePoint 2007: Favourite Links

SharePoint Design - Master Pages and default pageshttp://sharingpoint.blogspot.com/2006/06/extreme-sharepoint-design-_115108192207171602.htmlSharePoint 2007 SiteGroups - part 1 - the basicshttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2006/10/14/13889.aspxBlogs I found useful:http://www.sharepointblogs.comhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/http://www.sharepointblogs.com/vandest/http

Monday, January 15, 2007

SharePoint 2007: Customising the site directory

Customizing the site directory in SharePoint 2007.Let's see what cool links we'll find to do this:http://glenc.wordpress.com/2006/07/23/customizing-the-site-directory-in-moss-2007/Above post is extermely interesting ...If you go to the Settings of the Sites list, you will find quite a few interesting play things especially in the views.Categories - this looks like the categories which are used to

SharePoint 2007: Windows Authentication and Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration

Steps to remove the login screen from SharePoint 2007Enable Windows Authentication (NTLM)Add the SharePoint site to your IntranetIf you still get the login screen, this might be because you have Internet Explorer Enhanced Security switched. You need to disable it to remove the login screen. To disable it, go to Add / Remove control panel applet, go to Add / Remove Windows Components, find the

Thursday, January 11, 2007

SharePoint 2007: Installation Requirements (2007 Server Farm)

Software RequirementsWindows 2003 Server (SP1) with IIS SQL Server 2005 (SP1) .NET Framework 3.0 If the installation of SharePoint stops you asking for Windows Workflow foundation, download and install .NET Framework 3.0 and you should be able to proceed. Pre-installation SetupCreate a Windows User Account which SharePoint will be using to access the SQL Server. If the SQL Server will be hosted