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About This Site
If you have played with any of the ASP.NET design templates
that I have posted on earlier, you will probably have noticed that this site uses
one of those. This has worked well for me in the fact that I have absolutely no
graphic design skills whatsoever. On top of that an added benefit is that the design
templates are built with XHTML and CSS. This site for the most part will usually
validate unless I happen to screw it up. Since all of my older content came from
SharePoint, I have had to fix each entry manually to make it comply. Unfortunately,
I have only made it through the most recent 100 entries or so.
This site uses a Jello Mold as described on PositionIsEverything.net. I have found
that it works pretty well, but there are a few issues in Internet Explorer that
will cause the site to mess up. The Jello Mold attempts to set a minimum width via
a hack, but it doesn't completly work. That is why if you make the browser to narrow,
the content will jump to the bottom. The other issue I have is when using the pre
tag, if the content is too long, it will also cause the content to jump to the bottom.
Firefox handles this fine, but it doesn't necessarily look good either.
A simple custom database is used to store the content for each tip. The site uses a SqlDataSource
to retieve and cache the database calls for the content and the list of archive months. The site effectively consits of
two pages and two controls. It makes use of a master page to hold the site layout. Lastly, it uses
the XslCompiledTransform class to provide RSS integration. The content
of this site can be imported with most SharePoint servers using this XSL Transformation.