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 […]
SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development and Bootstrap 3
September 18, 2013 By 3 Comments
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, […]
SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2013 Recap
June 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Wow, it has been too long since my last post. I have been busy with the final push to publishing my book, “Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development” (Apress June 2013), which is now available for purchase, as well as helping organize and plan SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2013. SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley […]
Zurb Foundation for SharePoint 2013
May 13, 2013 By 2 Comments
I am pleased to announce that one of the CodePlex projects I lead, Responsive SharePoint, has released a new responsive framework conversion for SharePoint. The latest release is Zurb Foundation for SharePoint 2013. We had to delay the release longer than I had hoped, but with the new version of Foundation, now at version 4, […]
What’s New in SharePoint 2013 Web Content Management
May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I have heard some talk around the proverbial water cooler that previous versions of SharePoint were not the best for Web Content Management. I disagree as I have helped build some really nice public facing sites on SharePoint. Anyhow, I digress. If you are interested in learning about what is new in SharePoint 2013 Web […]
