Comments on: Jazz Up SharePoint Announcements with Windows Live Writer 2009

By: Nita

Nita — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:58:13 +0000

Nice… Thanks.
Now when you click on the annoucement how does it display? Also if the announcment is long how can I restrict the height of the block.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:54:44 +0000

When I go into my Announcements, I don’t have the Edit HTML Source button (or that whole row of buttons). The only buttons available are the 2nd row of buttons shown in your screencast (bold, text color, bullets, etc.)

By: Jerry Baum

Jerry Baum — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:24:48 +0000

My issue with playing the video was related to our corporate firewall blocking the video.

Resolved now.

By: jerry baum

jerry baum — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:57:07 +0000

I too am having trouble viewing the video. Using IE7 and have the latest version of Windows Media Player installed.

Video says “Ready” but just stays there when I hit play.

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:19:06 +0000

Do you have Windows Media player installed?

By: rp

rp — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:33:33 +0000

Cannot play the video

By: Lee Reed

Lee Reed — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:35:45 +0000

Ray, I agree with you. I went back and reviewed my video and noticed that I used the absolute link to the image rather than the relative link. I teach people all the time to use relative links rather than absolute links and can’t believe I didn’t make that point in the video. Thanks for bringing that to light.

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For those of you that are looking at these comments and are saying, “What are they talking about?”, here’s what we mean.

In brief, ALWAYS use relative links to images and DO NOT use absolute links to images. This becomes important when you move or upgrade your site later in its life-cycle.

An Absolute Link to an image looks like this:

http://www.mysharepointsite.com/myteamsite/images/london.jpg

A Relative Link to the same image looks like this:

/myteamsite/images/london.jpg

Notice that the relative link is missing the domain name at the beginning of the URL (ie http://www.mysharepoint.com/).

Lee

By: Ray Walters

Ray Walters — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:20:33 +0000

What I’ve found can also be critical in presenting links to site images in the sites which use them is to ensure that the link is relative instead of absolute – should sites/site collections be migrated/moved to other server URLs (Proof-of-Concept to production, QA to Production), the relative image reference won’t be broken if referenced correctly.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:37:10 +0000

For your scenario, you can also simply add a column of type “Picture” to the list, and display it as the first column.

By: Mick Brown

Mick Brown — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:59:20 +0000

Great post Lee, I suspect you’ll find the “problem” with being on the EUSP team is that your audience is so demanding – expecting high presentation standards, innovation and death defying frequency of output – You’ve Mark to thank for that :)

As an OOB experience the SP interface needs as much visual help as it can get – what a great idea to use other less wieldy HTML tools to bring a bit of life into SharePoint. I liked the comment about changing the title to ‘hot news’ or similar. The word “announcements” never seemed appropriate to the snappy news people want to communicate. It is particularly inappropriate now that there is a little color and life in the webpart! Looking forwards to more of the same.