By Cesar O.   Fonts are one of the biggest troubles for web designers to date. For ages we have been either using images or scripts to work around this issue.  If you want to use a fancy font, you have only a couple of alternatives: you could use @font-face, you could just use images (the most common way to do it), or you could use a rendering engine like SIFR  or cufon. This blog will explain roughly what these 2 alternatives are, some pros and cons and just an overview of how they work. If you want to learn in depth what they can do at its fullest I recommend going to http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/ for SIFR3 and http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ for cufon. SIFR This techniq...

By Omar L. In this tutorial, I will explain how to easily create an autocomplete with simple steps, with help of Microsoft Expression Blend 3.0 1 – We create a new application type: Silverlight 3 APPLICATION + WEBSITE, WE CLICK THE PATH, where Our solution will stay,  Then we choose the language and press the OK button. 2 – On the project tab, we open the MainPage.xaml archive, where we have the following code.   We now implement a  StackPanel control with the following properties, which will be the container of our Autocomplete control. <Grid x:Name=”LayoutRoot” Background=””>    <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="0" Width="400&...

 By Edith C.   When you are working on a SharePoint site, you usually do it on a development environment, so you need to think (even if you don’t want to) about the migration of the project to a production environment. This could be a nightmare if you are not prepared, but try to follow these tips on the deployment phase, and things will go much easier. Before deployment: ·         If you are deploying a publishing site, be sure you don’t have “Draft” or “Pending” documents or items. All unpublished items are not visible to anonymous users. A little tip: use the “Manage Content and Structure” option (for publishing sites) to filter all site items by “Drafts”, “Pending”, “Checked-out...