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Creating Dynamic Breadcrumbs in SharePoint ASPX Pages
Describes techniques for creating a dynamic breadcrumb, which will change to represent the logical structure of the site.
 
Use SharePoint Designer to Email Daily Task Reminders
This article describes how “Power” End Users and Developers alike can use SharePoint Designer to create an automated task reminder system based on SharePoint’s core workflow capability. 
 
Setting up a PDF iFilter on SharePoint
This prerelease software will allow a server administrator to configure the current 32-bit PDF IFilter so that it may be used with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
 
Adding PDF icons to WSS 3.0

So if you don't want that pesky default blank paper icon to show up next to your PDF files in your libraries or search results, do the following:

 
Hyperlinks in SharePoint document libraries
The idea is rather simple: Integrate documents in your library without actually having to store them there by placing hyperlinks in SharePoint document libraries .
 
SharePoint folders and metadata
How to create folders that can save metadata attributes as part of their properties.
 
Adding multiple time displays to a page
This article shows how to add multiple animateed clocks to a page.  More interestingly it uses a technique of including javascript at a page level. (original in German - Google Translate Version)
 
Rollup Content Across Multiple Site Collections
Article describes using common metadata (site columns) across several site collections andd then leveraging search on the parent site to expose the common content.  VERY GOOD!
 
Apply color coding to your SharePoint lists
Color coding is very useful to highlight key items in a list. For example in an issues list, you may want to draw the users’ attention on items with high priority.
 
A progress bar for your tasks list
Details how to show the progress of your tasks in SharePoint usiong a colored bar.
 
SharePoint Image Search - Pt 4 (of 4)
How to create an image search center on a MOSS site. The goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page.
 
Using LyteBox to create no code web parts with the CEWP

The use of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License javascript library called LyteBox. This library allows you to incorporate some pretty cool effects into SharePoint using a simple content editor web part to give users a Web 2.0 feel to training content.

 
Using SharePoint Surveys for a Quiz
How-to with some interesting requirements. Part 2
 
Performing joins between SharePoint lists
Demonstrates how to join data from 2 simple lists on a web report type page using SPD.
 
Building a blog host
Article on the pattern for a "Blog Host". A site collection that contains many blog sites.
 
Add a SharePoint list toolbar to a Data View
Using Designer to add the SharePoint list toolbar to the Data View so that you can work more effectively with the underlying list or library.
 
Creating a SharePoint 2007 Theme
A quick rundown of how to get started creating a theme and then customize it using CSS.
 
How to remove the "title" column from a Sharepoint list
Often, site admins want their audiences to click on "New Item" in a Sharepoint list and not have to fill out the default 'Title' column content type.  This article will show you how to remove this from the view.
 
Customize the NewForm.aspx
Have you ever wanted to change the fields presented in a form? Here's a nice step by step.
 
Top 100 SharePoint Blogs
from Joel Osen - automated pull
 
Create Access forms and reports from a SharePoint list

You can create forms and reports from a SharePoint list and use them as views. Users of the SharePoint site who have Access 2007 installed can open these forms and reports by using the View menu of the SharePoint list. You can make an Access view the default view for a list.

 
Video 0n Inserting Video to SharePoint Blog
SharePoint by default filters the embed code from the rich text fields. This video shows a workaround for this problem
 
Code & Tutorial for inserting video
 
Tiny Calendar web part
 
How to query cross-site lists in DataFormWebPart

Problem - We have a site which contains many sub-sites. On this site we want to use DataFormWebPart to display all the pages in Pages library of all sub-sites.

 
SharePoint Community Content - Where to find it
Great blog post on what is out there online in the SharePoint community.  Discusses everything from blogs to discussion groups, and the Twitter community.  Incudes links to rss feeds and a aggregator sites.  This is a must read.
 
OneNote & SharePoint Integration
One page article outlining use of
codePlex tool to publish OneNote pages,, also cover OOTB integration capabilities.  Nice Primer.
OneNote
 
Rotating Pictures, Random Pictures

Many web sites have pictures that keep changing while the page is displayed. If you were doing ASP.NET development you might use the AdRotator control to do this. You can find some custom web parts that can be installed on your web server to do this.

But… I wanted a way to do this with no C# programming, no server deployment issues and even without SharePoint Designer. This is yet another Content Editor Web Part trick!