Extending the DVWP – Part 30: Using EasyTabs with Filtered DVWPs to Make Data Manageable. Filtering with Web Part Connections. Have you ever noticed the 'Connections' option on web parts and wondered what it was meant to do? Have you played with it a bit, tried connecting one thing to another only to have nothing happen? Did you do a web search to try to figure it out and come back with results like "Connection Interface Pair: ICellProvider, ICellConsumer" and then give up, just to assume that was something you needed Sharepoint Designer to master (and you don't have Sharepoint Designer?) Home.
Add Simple Widgets to Your SharePoint Page. When I teach beginning SharePoint users, I describe web parts as "little widgets you can drop on your page". That usually does the trick. However, what if you REALLY want to put some widgets on your page? How would you go about doing that? I sent out a link to the SharePoint World Cup Template demo site I created from Andy Dale's framework template. I tweaked it a little with some widgets to make it a little less geeky. SharePoint 2007, CSS and you, the Non-Developer – the Intro.