In the SharePoint 2013 Snippet Gallery, you will find the “Site Logo” snippet. This snippet allows you to quickly and easily add the SharePoint site logo controls to your HTML Master Page, as well as make it a link if you set the NavigateURL property found in Customization – Site Logo ( SPSimpleSiteLink ) -> […]
Modify the SharePoint 2013 Ribbon with Help from Ribbon.ascx
June 27, 2014 By 17 Comments
One of the many little changes made to how SharePoint 2013 generates its interface is a snippet / control that SharePoint 2013 uses for the ribbon and suite bar control. This snippet / control links to a control template that may be difficult to find and customize. Part of the reason why it has been […]
SharePoint Saturday Redmond 2013 Recap
September 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I just enjoyed my second SharePoint Saturday Redmond (#SPSRed) and I must say that Christian Buckley, Sharon Healy, Owen Allen and Erica Toelle did a great job organizing the event. Thank you very much. Also a huge thanks to Trevor Seward who organized all of the volunteers. As a speaker and sponsor, I can tell […]
SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development and Bootstrap 3
September 18, 2013 By 3 Comments
I am pleased to say that the response to my first book on branding SharePoint 2013 and Responsive Design, Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development (Apress 2013), has been overwhelming positive. Thank you everyone for your kind words and I am extremely happy to know that this book has been helping you with […]
Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 7 – .NET Code Blocks in Snippets
September 9, 2013 By 1 Comment
In Master Pages and Page Layouts, there is often a need to reference .NET code blocks within a ASP.NET control. A common example is referencing a SharePoint resource within a control such as <asp:Label text=”<%$Resources:cms,Article_rollup_image_text15%>” CssClass=”ms-textSmall” runat=”server” /> I pulled this control out of the ArticlesLists.aspx OOTB Page Layout. This control is an ASP.NET Label […]
Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint Released
September 3, 2013 By 1 Comment
I am pleased to announce the arrival of a new book on SharePoint that I had the pleasure of helping author. This is a must read for anyone looking to combine SharePoint (2010 or 2013) and JavaScript/jQuery. You can order Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint (EUSP Press 2013) now from Amazon in eBook […]
SharePoint 2013 Structured Navigation – Dynamic Menus Fixed – August 2013 CU
August 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
When many of us upgraded to SharePoint 2013, we quickly noticed that our SharePoint menus did not behave as expected. In particular with structured navigation we would only have three levels of our site included in SharePoint navigation. For most site structures this only left one level of dynamic menus. This issue was discussed at […]
Custom JavaScript Code After a Display Template Loads
July 11, 2013 By 4 Comments
Display templates are one of my favorite new features of SharePoint 2013. That and the Design Manager. Anyhow, with display templates it is now much more easy to retrieve results from search and display the results in a custom manner. What I often want to do is let SharePoint provide the query results, but I […]
The Summer of SharePoint 2013 and Responsive Design
July 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
With the summer upon us, it is time to gear up, get some training and be ready for when your coworkers’ vacations end and end of the year projects need to be completed. If you are being tasked to deploy a new SharePoint site, have you consider mobile devices? If not you should. As for […]
Get a Site Collection and Web Path Using JavaScript in SharePoint 2013
July 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
If you need to quickly get the site collection path or the specific web path of a current SharePoint 2013 site using JavaScript, use the _spPageContextInfo JavaScript object variable and its properties. A possible scenario includes creating a link to a library that may exist in every site and subsite of a particular site collection, […]
