I have mentioned a bit about search engine optimization within SharePoint before, so I thought I’d share some more information that I have collected working with clients. When developing sites make sure you have a read through this.
Things to Think About
- Make sure you use the markup validation (http://validator.w3.org)
- Use color blindness simulators (http://www.vischeck.com) to test pages
- Make sure content and pages have meaningful and accurate titles
- Always provide images with an alt attribute; be brief but meaning, as long you convey the appropriate meaning
- Pages should remain usable if users enlarge text up to twice its original size
Tips
- Separate structure from presentation (CSS) and use proper markup
- HTML headings (e.g. H1) are better than using CSS to style text that makes it look like a heading
Additional Links
Just recently some new content has been made available. I have also included other links that I found useful:
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With this being my birthday month, recently purchasing a new MacBook Pro (am enjoying it so much) and SharePoint Buzz just going into our 3rd year, I decided it was also a good time to celebrate!. Instead of one prize giveaway at the end of the month, why not giveaway prizes through out the month.
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Starting tomorrow, SharePoint Buzz is going to be holding a massive July SharePoint Giveaway. Details will be included in our post tomorrow. Everything from SharePoint Training DVDs, SharePoint Training Books to Software will be given away. The giveaways have been either donated or won by yours truly!
Figured since July, is my birthday month and this past June we just celebrated our 3rd year anniversary of launching SharePoint Buzz, why not just give everything away!
Sponsors - If you would like to be a part of this giveaway, please feel free to contact me.
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Purchased an apple macbook pro 17 inch laptop
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Just wanted to do a quick post for items I must share:
Congrats to Vertigo Software have being awarded Microsoft Web Development Partner of the Year for their work on Hard Rock application (go check it out)!
From Chad Brooks blog post Enabling MOSS to use .Net 3.5 points to Presentation Model in SharePoint
Learn how to do Tag Clouds via SharePoint Designer 2007
How to Generate a WSP (solution package) - How to generate a WSP when we have individual Dll’s to be deployed in to gac other than features,files to layout folder etc..,
Showing “my links” on a web page - learn about a hidden my links web part
Microsoft provides video on How to Building Web Parts with User Controls and AJAX
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Had a collegue of mine who was working with the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint and after installing one of the examples, received a Server Error.
At first he could not view the error message, so I had my collegue turn on debugging. After this, he was able to view the error properly.
The error was:
Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Web.Silverlight, Version….’or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
There’s a simple solution to this error message, so I thought I’d also post it here for everyone.
Solution
Copy System.Web.Silverlight.dll from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v2.0\Libraries\Server to C:\Windows\assembly
Copy Silverlight.js from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v2.0\Tools to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\<portNumber>\ClientBin\
Register Silverlight MIME type for file extension .XAP in IIS
Reset IIS
This solved my collegue’s problems and hopefully helped you out.
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