Every one who is in SharePoint branding knows of Heather Solomon. She is our leader. For SharePoint 2007, she was my personal life saver with her CSS Chart and I had it printed by my monitor. Her blog posts, information and guidance is the reason I got through many a difficult day in branding. And […]
Continue readingMore TagCategory: Uncategorized
Microsoft Theme Builder: What does everything do?
This post about Microsoft’s Theme Builder will explain the blow by blow on each element we will use for SharePoint 2010. -> as seen on Nothing But SharePoint I have become a firm believer in this wonderful tool. But with my blog posts, a lot of people have asked me “So what does each element […]
Continue readingMore TagYour Road. My Road. Our Road.
I have spent alot of time watching people in my industry lately. The personalities run from the normal to the fanatical to the comical. Some people are at the front lines of the cause, waving their swords, painting their faces blue and screaming “freedom” whilst riding a rather large horse. When others are at the […]
Continue readingMore Tag#SharePointProverbs : Humour :)
On Thursday night a trend started on twitter called #SharePointProverbs – started by Joy Earles – I found it absolutely brilliant, and very funny, so here it is – Proverbs By the SharePoint Community for the community (and enjoyment of every on in IT). I copied this from :Twitter – so it will probably be […]
Continue readingMore TagWorking with Microsofts’ Theme Builder Beta
In my search for easy ways to create a theme for SharePoint 2010, I came across this post on TechnoSpot regarding Microsofts Theme Builder (Beta) written by Ashish Mohta. You can go check it out and download it from here: http://connect.microsoft.com/themebuilder . The site describes Theme Builder as “The Theme Builder tool enables the creation […]
Continue readingMore TagCreating a theme for SharePoint 2010 using PowerPoint
Something that a “non web design savvy” administrator can do to “pretty” up their SharePoint 2010 site is to change the theme (the theme controls the fonts and colours of the site) and this is easily done with Microsoft PowerPoint. It is very simple to do and it really helps when you cannot find one […]
Continue readingMore TagCheat Sheet: SharePoint Style
There are a few things that when you are designing a site (specially an internet facing one) that you have to do, and always forget how to (well, I do), such as Hiding the ribbon from anonymous users. This post is my Cheat Sheet for such events. I hope you find it useful 🙂 I […]
Continue readingMore TagThe ‘Fantastic 40’ SharePoint Jokes
One of my face books friends linked me to Paul Swiders blog entry called the ‘The ‘Fantastic 40’ SharePoint Jokes’ -> I couldn’t stop laughing for about 20 mins – Go read the whole post here on his blog – www.paulswider.com/the-fantastic-40-sharepoint-jokes.html/ But here are a few teasers and my personal favourites: What do you call […]
Continue readingMore TagWorking for friends: what are the limits
As a Designer, Coder, Copy Writer, Photographer (all professions actually) we get asked to help out friends by lending them our expertise. The question I had today was: What are the limits when it comes to charging them? I have been on the short end of the stick a few times when it has come […]
Continue readingMore TagSharePoint 2010 Masterpages and CSS
Matthew Hughes of http://engageinsharepoint.co.uk has created a ready to use master page and linked css for SharePoint 2010. It includes an orange and a blue version for free use on any SharePoint site. What is so brilliant about this set is that it is easy to customise from Matts’ pages and create your own colour […]
Continue readingMore Tag