Providing Free Applications: Looking Back on a Year of Donationware

Tim Dobrinski — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:39:00 GMT

On February 21st, 2009, I released a program to the SharePoint community called the SharePoint Space Monitor. Its purpose: to analyze the content on a SharePoint site to see which sites are hogging up your Site Collection's Content Database. As it has been almost a year since the applications rele ... (More)

"Loading" screen for long loading pages.

Tim Dobrinski — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:46:00 GMT

I was asked about showing a graphic on a long loading page. I think I got a good solution so I thought I'd post is here... On the page you want to show this message, put a Content Editor Web Part on the page. Edit the Source (not the Rich Text) and paste the following:

Monitor Your Disk Usage: The SharePoint Space Monitor

Tim Dobrinski — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Let's be honest, more often that not, there are two questions that you often have to ask yourself in the world of SharePoint Administration: Who moved my cheese? and Who is hogging all the disk space in my Site Collection? While I can't help you with your cheese, I can offer up a suggestion ... (More)

The Variations Editor 2.0

Tim Dobrinski — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:36:00 GMT

The Variations Editor - (still) a Free Application to Scan, Diagnose, and Edit troubled SharePoint Variations sites. Today, I have made the latest and greatest version of the SharePoint Variations Editor available for download from my downloads page. Look for the SharePointVariationsEditor_2.zi ... (More)

SEO Solution: Internet-facing Keyword "Scroll Up" and "Scroll Down" Phrases

Tim Dobrinski — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:11:00 GMT

This may be a minor problem but it is something that I think could useful for those of us with internet-facing sites. In using an SEO Analysis Tool (Bruce Clay's Keyword Density Analyzer), I discovered that my keywords were skewed due to the repeated use of the phrses "scroll up" and & ... (More)

Site Actions Logout Feature

Tim Dobrinski — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:28:00 GMT

I was recently asked about adding a "Log out" button to the Site Actions menu. As luck would have it, I had written a feature on it a good while back. It's not all that complicated, but I figure that it can't hurt to share in case anyone out there wanted it and (most importantly) wanted ... (More)

301/302 Redirect "Hop Tester" - More Free Code!

Tim Dobrinski — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:43:00 GMT

In my post about the 301 vs 302 redirects in SharePoint, I mentioned that if anyone requested the "Hop Tester" I wrote to test if the redirects are 301's or 302's that I'd post it in my downloads section. Well, it's been requested, so here it is. HttpStatusChecker.zip The en ... (More)