How to add a social network share link on an Office Live website

With the popularity of social networks on the internet, it is recommended that a website provides users with the flexibility to share your website link to social networks. This is basically free marketing for your website. There are several free services that easily integrate with a website, and there is zero cost. In this blog, I discuss the use of the AddThis.com tool bar and how to integrate this...

WCF Secure Channel cannot be opened - Load Balancing with wsHttp Binding

When a WCF service generates the following error:Exception: Secure channel cannot be opened because security negotiation with the remote endpoint has failed. This may be due to absent or incorrectly specified EndpointIdentity in the EndpointAddress used to create the channel. Please verify the EndpointIdentity specified or implied by the EndpointAddress correctly identifies the remote endpoint. Inner...

How to create a page template on an Office Live website

The Office Live websites are created on the SharePoint platform and provide a bundle of designer tools that allows for the creation of websites. A new page can be added with ease by selecting from the standard templates. There is a range of templates that allows for the creation of a contact us, services, calendar among others type of pages. The layout from the templates may not be what you need,...

How to load JQuery to a page of an Office Live website

Office Live provides users with a decent page designer to create a website. There is often the need to customize the web pages with more rich content, and you may be limited to what the designer can do. Office Live uses SharePoint and ASPX (.Net) for the creation of the websites, but we can only upload markup pages with no code behind. Nevertheless, this constraint can be overcome by manipulating...

Access Master Page Properties from Content Pages using MasterType

In some cases, it may be necessary to allow a content page to set a master page UI element value. This can be achieved by using the page directive @ MasterType.  This creates a strongly typed reference to the ASP.NET master page. Scenario: The master page has  a label control (lblMessage). This label is used by each content page to show a different welcome message. In the master page...

How to customize the Office Live page header with an image

The initial website templates that come from Office Live for Small Business are ok to start a website. Once, you need to improve the look of your website you will need further customization which is not offered in the office live page designer interface. There are few ways to replace the header. I will focus on the case in which you may want to use an image as your website header without the need...