SharePoint
Inconvenient good page title with SharePoint Server Web Content Management (revisited)
One of the things that matter when optimizing an Internet-facing website for search engines is the page title. Next to the level one header (H1) and the URL, the page title is one of the most important elements of your page that allows search engine to find your page. A good page title consists of at least the title of the current page and the title of the website. Additionally, if the site is quite large you can add the name of the section. And although it doesn’t sound like rocket science it is quite inconvenient to do it right in SharePoint.
You created a Content Type and it doesn’t inherit columns from the parent Content Type (Publishing Tip #1)
Imagine the following scenario: you created a new Content Type in SharePoint 2010. You built the Content Type ID correctly.aspx) and even included the FieldRefs element. Still, after you provisioned your Content Type it doesn’t contain any fields:
Page Layouts vs. Body id revisited and solved
Right after I posted my last article on using Page Layouts for dynamic body ids and issues that you stumble on, I got one more idea on how you might leverage Page Layouts for setting dynamic body ids and still deliver a great performing solution.
Error while deploying a WSP with CAS using the new Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools (and fix too)
If you’re working with SharePoint 2010 solutions that deploy assemblies to BIN the right way (with CAS policies that is), you might have noticed that an error occurs during the deployment of the WSP to SharePoint with the new Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools.
MSO_ContentDiv – Web Part Properties right where you want them
While creating custom branding for SharePoint it is not only important that it looks all right, but also that it’s fully functional and that users don’t loose any of the standard functionality provided with the platform. While most elements can be easily positioned within Master Page and Page Layout some are positioned more “indirectly”. Knowing how SharePoint does the positioning can help you deliver a great User Experience.