When you are using Office 365 in its totality, you notice a difference in the top bar. In SharePoint Online (when not using the rest of O365) your top bar is called the Suite Bar (#suiteBar). When using the full O365 portal your top bar is the O365 Navigation Header (#o365cs-nav). SharePoint Online Office […]
Continue readingMore TagTrouble with Tribbles: Composed Looks, Custom CSS and Master Pages
This week I was faced with a challenge of creating a custom composed look, with a custom master page as well as themeable style sheet, that could change via “Change the Look”. I followed a few of the tutorials and I will list my pain in this post. But thanks to Randy Drisgill and Elio […]
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After a brilliant talk by Simon Stewart at Johannesburg’s Microsoft community night last night, I have decided to change my track, and create a Pure CSS SharePoint Template. Like Bootstrap for SharePoint by Liam Powell, this brings easy to use but more minimalist responsiveness to SharePoint. With already tried and tested CSS and a great framework […]
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Today is the first birthday of The SharePoint Experience. It has been a wonderful year, and we look forward to many more, filled with SharePoint, Mobile, Applications and UX. Time flies when you are having fun 🙂
Continue readingMore TagSharePoint 2013 From Scratch: Step 2, Designing the top banner
Today we are going to take our wireframes and make them “a reality”. So lets get started. I did a search to find a Photoshop template of SharePoint 2013 and found this fantastic one from Erik Swenson. It saved me a huge amount of time. Also check out his site for the SharePoint 2010 version. You start off […]
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SharePoint 2013 From Scratch: Step 1, Wireframes
With SharePoint 2013 starting to take hold, I want to show you how to get your own 2013 site up, running and responsive. Over the next posts I will start at the Design, right through to the deployment. I am going to use my new site for The SharePoint Experience as my demo, but feel […]
Continue readingMore TagWinson Wolf’s World Map – CSS and JQuery Magic
I got to work with Winston Wolf’s Clickable World Map today – a serious marvel of CSS and JQuery. It is free, and so I thought I would share it with you – my way of getting more people to use it, and to get Mr Wolf some exposure for his other clickable maps (he has all […]
Continue readingMore TagHTML 5 – Media Query Starter Kit
I have had the good fortune and pleasure of working with one of ZA’s most brilliant SharePoint UX and Front end specialists. We are focusing on responsive design in SharePoint 2010. One of the tricks shown to me was a simple border at the top, with a colour per media query, to help identify whats what. You have […]
Continue readingMore TagTutorial – Working with Master Pages Part One
Over the past few weeks, I have had many requests to “de-code” the starter master page, and also stop SharePoint Designer putting the fear of Geek into every one. So I have put together this step by step guide and added the links to other Branding Blog posts by other people all together in one […]
Continue readingMore TagThe new SPD
So the new look and feel for the SharePoint Designer is almost complete – Barring some portfolio pictures, and some content here and there. The new look is to help SPD serve as my personal consulting site and my blog, and I think the template I decided on works very nicely. I will be adjusting […]
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