Adding a news ticker to your SharePoint 2007 site without Flash

Monday, December 1st, 2008

I’ve written up some notes on using jQuery to improve the look & feel of your SharePoint site. This would be especially interesting to anybody trying to develop SharePoint sites using only SharePoint designer.

In the example I upload jQuery to the site (along with a BBC news ticker plug-in) and modify the page to reference jQuery and the plug in, then I modify a data-view to consume a SharePoint list into the jQuery plug-in. Essentially ending up with a nice news ticker web part without the need for Flash, custom web-parts or development.

jQuery can essentially give you Ajax/Flash like advantages without much work on your part. Simply upload the file and start plugging in.

Tags: jQuery, news ticker, Sharepoint
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