Posted by Troy on June 7, 2010 under Microsoft, SharePoint, Web | 
In order to see the Master Page menu option in the “Look and Feel” Sites Settings section in SharePoint 2010, you have to activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure. There are two features that need to be activated in SharePoint
- SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
- SharePoint Server Publishing
These features must be activated at the web site level and not by using the Central Administration Web Application. This can cause some confusion because these settings are available in the Central Administration tool.
First, navigate to the website that where you want to activate the Publishing feature. Next, Select: Site Actions>Site Settings
Now Select, Site Collection Features from the Site Collection Administration section:
In this section you want to activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
Go back to the Site Settings page and select Manage Site Features from the Site Actions section. This time you need to activate SharePoint Server Publishing.
Once this is activated the Master Page option will be available in the Look and Feel section for the Site Settings:
Its important to remember that this must be set up at the site level.
Troy
Posted by Troy on July 13, 2009 under BlackBerry, IT, Mobile, Web |
If you try installing the BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse using the BlackBerry update site you will probably receive the following error:
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed Error closing the output stream for net.rim.EclipseJDE/org.eclipse.update.feature/1.0.0.67 on repository file:/C:/eclipse-SDK-3.4.1-win32/eclipse/. Error unzipping C:\DOCUME~1\scottt\LOCALS~1\Temp\net.rim.EclipseJDE_1.0.0.674162146521096327961.jar: Invalid zip file format Problems ...
There is a post on the BlackBerry support forum which says that the issue is related to their update site and that you need to download the plug-in:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/javaeclipseplug.jsp
It is also important to make sure that you have a valid version of Eclipse. You need Ganymede 3.4 or 3.4.1. You can download it here.
I didn’t have much luck with the Full Installer. I downloaded one of the component packs instead and manually added the packages to Eclipse. When I ran the full installer the video display on my computer froze.
Go to Windows/Preferences once you have copied the correct files to the features and plugins folders in Eclipse.
Troy
Posted by Troy on July 12, 2009 under Blogging, Microsoft, Web |
In yesterday’s post as I was walking through the Windows Live Writer configuration and there was a step that allowed you to add your blog to your Window’s Live site (you need to have a Windows Live account for this). When I tried sharing my WordPress site it failed.
The reason it failed is that blog was not set up as a feed. To fix the issue I used feedburner to set up the blog as an RSS 2.0 feed. Once it was set up I was able to share my WordPress blog on my Windows Live Profile page:
The area highlighted in yellow shows my last post.
Troy
Posted by Troy on October 27, 2008 under Web |
This blog used to be hosted by WordPress up until about a week ago. The blog was called troyscott.wordpress.com. The WordPress site was great. Number one its free and WordPress is fairly easy to use and very configurable. But there were some drawbacks having it on the WordPress site like using Feed Burner and Google AdSense.
So I decided host my own WordPress site. About a year ago I signed up with Host Papa which came with the following features:
- 10 add-on domains
- 100 MySQL databases
- 1 TB of storage
- Fantasico (software installer that comes with cPanel)
Last month I registered my site name for about $20 with domain.ca. Last week I finally spent some time to transferring my blog from troyscott.WordPress.com to troyscott.ca. In order to do this I needed to export my current blog data from troyscott.wordpress.com and supply the named server info to domain.ca. You can export the blog by logging onto the WordPress Dashboard and then select Manage>Export:
Download the file to you local machine. Before I imported my old blog to troyscott.ca I used Fantasico to set up the WordPress blog application. I could of installed this myself and I won’t know if using Fantasico was a good idea until I try to upgrade my site to a newer release of WordPress. But if you want to get your blog up and running quickly or you are not comfortable installing the blog software your server I recommend using a product like Fantasico. In a matter of minutes my blog was up an running. Of course you can only use Fantasico if your web server provider has cPanel.
Once my blog was up and running I had an important decision to make. Do I keep my original blog on WordPress and simply re-direct the traffic to my new site or do I delete my old site. Well in my case I decided to delete my old site. However, the only reason I did this is that my old site had very low traffic (mostly do to the lack of blog posts and not SEO) and I wanted to learn about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In fact when my site was hosted at WordPress.com my SEO was very good. If your site already has a lot of traffic and subscribers I would leave it up and just include a post stating that your blog has moved.
Now its time to customize the site and focus on SEO and Google AdSense and most importantly its time to start blogging.
Troy
