SharePoint 2013 allows us to hide site elements in dialogs just as we could in SharePoint 2010. Just be aware that the class we add to such elements we wish to hide has changed. The Problem: In a custom branding project you add a new container element, such as a new header, navigation block or […]
SharePointlandia Portland 2013 Recap
April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I just got back from SharePointlandia Portland 2013. You know, I really like Portland. I should probably visit between November and March as every other time I have visited the sky has been clear, the sun has been shining. I thought Portland was all about the rain? Maybe that is Seattle? We must all thank […]
Soon to be published SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Design Book
April 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
In case you hadn’t heard, I am writing a book! Or rather I am co-authoring a SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development book with a few other very talented people, in particular Rita Zhang, Oscar Medina, Kanwal Khipple and Benjamin Niaulin. The title of the book, “Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development” […]
Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 5 – Content Delivery Networks
April 8, 2013 By 5 Comments
Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are useful to increase website performance, such as a great way to help speed up your site download times, even if by a fraction of a second. In branding, we often use public CDN’s offered by Google or Microsoft that host common files such as jQuery libraries. If we plan to use Design Manager for our Master Pages and Page Layouts, an issue arises with how SharePoint 2013 and Design Manager parse our HTML using XML.
SharePoint Fest Denver 2013 Recap
April 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at SharePoint Fest – Denver, hosted by David Wilhelm and the rest of his team. This post is well overdue so I not only wanted to provide my slidedecks but also some of my experiences. First, to those that attended my sessions, thank […]
Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 4 – Web fonts
March 12, 2013 By 2 Comments
Web fonts such as the free Google web fonts have become a popular alternative to standard web based fonts. We can easily include them in our SharePoint 2013 branding projects as well. Note be aware that older browsers may have more issues with web fonts although they are widely supported by IE 8 and newer. […]
Announcing SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2013
March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Mark your calendars now as SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley is returning to the Bay Area this coming June 22, 2013 once again at the Oshman Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto, California. I am really looking forward to this SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley (#SPSSV) as last year’s event was full of excitement. The attendees were […]
Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 3 – HTML5 DOCTYPE
February 26, 2013 By 1 Comment
Here is a simple one that can be frustrating when overlooked, yet the problem makes sense and is very easy to fix. More than once a HTML file has been handed off to me “ready” for SharePoint 2013’s new Design Manager, i.e. we want to concert the HTML5 file to a HTML Master Page in […]
Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 2 – Design Manager, Boilerplate and XML Validation Errors
January 28, 2013 By 7 Comments
In this post we are going to review a common XML validation error in SharePoint 2013’s new Design Manager when converting a HTML file to a Master Page, its cause and how to fix it. SharePoint 2013 is now HTML5 friendly and with the addition of Design Manager and Design Manager’s ability to convert a […]
Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 1 – Inline Styles in Design Manager Page Layout
January 12, 2013 By 1 Comment
When you begin working with Page Layouts in SharePoint 2013 Design Manager available in Publishing site, you may want to start adding inline styles like you used to do in SharePoint 2010 to hide the left quick launch among many other reasons. Easy enough, you create a custom Page Layout in Design Manager, say named […]
