Heather and Dustin are headed to the city by the bay to share their latest SharePoint know-how. Stop by the Branding Ask the Experts table on Tuesday to say hello and check out these sessions: Continue reading
SharePoint Experience has knowledge and will travel. How about you?
Vote now and let us know what destination city you want to attend training and when is the best time to travel. And yes, a SharePoint cruise made the short list.
In addition to the stripped, cleaned and commented SharePoint 2010 master pages that we provide, we also have posted a copy of v4.master (default SharePoint master page – simple layout with top navy bar) that still has all original HTML layout code in place but has the same cleaning and comments added that our Just the Essentials master pages receive. Now another version of this file has been added that is a copy of v4.master with all of the UI3 code removed. If you are not supporting UI3 sites (2010 sites that look like 2007) then you can use the UI4 Only version.
We will be jet setting to the West Coast quite a bit in February! After our next UI/UX Experience course happening in Seattle, February 6-10th, we are headed to the SPTechCon conference in San Fransisco. We can honestly say that this is one of our favorite conferences to attend. Everything is still very personal and you don’t feel like one person in a vast sea of many.
Here is a summary of the sessions that we will be presenting: Continue reading
The issue: you start working with CSS to make the global navigation (top navigation) items look like tabs, solid boxes, etc.
If you are using dynamic (drop down) menus, you run into an alignment issue with the drop down container NOT aligning with the colored navigation item: Continue reading
My 10 year old daughter wrote this a month ago and I happened upon it today, just a few hours after the news of Steve Jobs’ passing. I found it fitting and wanted to share. Continue reading
By default, anything you add in your custom SharePoint master page will not only appear in the web interface, but will be passed through and appear in the pop-up dialog box that is used for so many functions in SharePoint 2010. Microsoft recommends adding the s4-notdlg CSS class to any HTML element that you don’t want to appear in the dialog box. So for example: Continue reading
I received a request to hide the “View Properties” and “Reply” icon and text that appears in the far right of the flat topic view in SharePoint 2010. Here is a CSS style statement to hide both links and the separator image that appears in-between. Continue reading
As a follow up to my “Base Master Page Files for SharePoint 2007“, I have put together and posted three different master page files for use with SharePoint 2010. Every file is heavily commented and provides a lot of information about what code is necessary for various SharePoint functionality and content. Due to the enhanced user interface elements added to SharePoint 2010 such as the Ribbon and dialog boxes, there are specific HTML elements, IDs and classes that need to remain in place in the master page. You can’t take a total slash and burn approach to developing a custom SharePoint master page. So in short, read the comments! Continue reading
With the introduction of list based navigation in SharePoint 2010, you can control the display of the dynamic (drop down) menus better than before. A common request is to change the vertical direction of the dynamic menu display (items that appear when you hover over a parent navigation item the drop down menu is activated) to horizontal. The following CSS style statement will change the Global Navigation (top menu bar) dynamic menus to appear horizontally. Continue reading