This is part three of my series on modifying the SharePoint 2013 suite bar and ribbon in a safe and SharePoint friendly manner. Part one: “Collapse the Suite Bar and Ribbon to One Line” Part two: “On Demanding Hiding the Suite Bar and Ribbon” In part three, I will extend my previous post that investigated […]
SharePoint 2013 – On-demand Collapsing Ribbon
August 21, 2014 By 9 Comments
This is part two of my series on modifying the SharePoint 2013 suite bar and ribbon in a safe and SharePoint friendly manner. Part one includes “Collapse the Suite Bar and Ribbon to One Line“. In part two, I am want to address another request I received. A subscriber asked how to hide and show […]
SharePoint 2013 – Collapse the Suite Bar and Ribbon to One Line
August 11, 2014 By 12 Comments
Often I am asked to shrink the SharePoint 2013 suite bar and ribbon into one line. For some, the suite bar and ribbon take up too much space and thus the desire to collapse the two bars into one. This is actually very easy to do with a little CSS and jQuery. Unsure of what […]
Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 8 – A Better Logo Snippet
July 29, 2014 By 4 Comments
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 […]
