Experiences with Microsoft 365, Azure, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
