If the standard yellow box in the top right isn't appearing in a WSS site, then you need to enable searching. To enable the search, you must do a number of things, as outlined in this short post.   more »

If you use the regular Site Settings > Change portal site properties and SharePoint site creation settings to insert a large banner image, you may find this expands the page too much as the Site Settings, Help and My Site links will get pushed further to the right.   more »

Here's my suggestion for best practice for making changes to the Portal. The idea is to basically leave the standard Microsoft SharePoint files alone, so that any changes we make can be easily undone, and if a service pack or fix is released, then it's got less chance of affecting our changes made.   more »

Follow this short post on how to install Smiling Goat RSS Reader.   more »

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way of syndicating news type content and consuming that content for display onto your own website. Examples of RSS feeds are BBC news feeds, Microsoft Developer Information, and indeed this blog site itself can be syndicated. Consuming RSS feeds within SharePoint can be used by using a specific SharePoint Web Part that functions to grab the RSS content, and then transform that feed to be displayed on the page.   more »

For a dataview web part created in FrontPage to consume an RSS feed but get "The Web Part has timed out", then this short article gives some ideas.   more »

Using SharePoint, you can quite easily display tabular data of the information you have in a list. However, wouldn't it be cool if you could show charts of information stored in lists (not just a graphical view of surveys)? Well, this is indeed possible using a combination of DataViews and the Microsoft PivotChart Web Part.   more »

SharePoint is a great way to create dynamic content that can be asily updated. However, on first glance it looks like everything in a site for example, either has to be added to the homepage of that site, or linked to (such as documents, announcements, etc.).   more »