The Summer of SharePoint 2013 and Responsive Design

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 … [Continue reading]

Get a Site Collection and Web Path Using JavaScript in SharePoint 2013

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 … [Continue reading]

SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2013 Recap

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 … [Continue reading]

Zurb Foundation for SharePoint 2013

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 … [Continue reading]

What’s New in SharePoint 2013 Web Content Management

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 … [Continue reading]

Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 6 – Hiding Elements in Dialogs

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]

SharePointlandia Portland 2013 Recap

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]

Soon to be published SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Design Book

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]

Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 5 – Content Delivery Networks

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]

SharePoint Fest Denver 2013 Recap

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]