1My blog is a collection of my thoughts, finding & pains that come with the world of SharePoint design & branding, web design & the world that we live in. I will blog on all the aspects of SharePoint in a design sense.

With the launch of SharePoint 2010, I thought it might be fitting to start focusing on the design and branding element of SharePoint and show the world what can be done when you are thinking of being creating with the product.
Leading on from that I am doing to launch a series of Top 20’s ranging [...]

Before I started working for myself the thought of doing out of hours work, attending meetings or even a conference was something that would make me gasp – “what?! continue working after the hours of 5pm, I think not”. Now I do work for myself and my attitude has taken a complete turnaround and as [...]

On Thursday, 14th January I am doing my first presentation for the SUGUK in Nottingham at Intelligent Decisioning Ltd head quarters in Strelley, Nottingham. I am doing a small session on SharePoint Design & Branding, a little show and tell and my thought process when doing design and branding. The session is called Making SharePoint [...]

Between 19th and 22nd of October, I am off to Las Vegas to attend the SharePoint Conference! With over 15000 minutes of SharePoint talk I am going to be coming back having absorbed it all and ready to go with 2010.
Talking of 2010 this is the chance to see the latest version of SharePoint – something [...]

I have finally found a fix to a really annoying bug in SharePoint that squishes my site when I have edited a Web Part!
In side the SharePoint master page everything is set to Height:100% – EVERYTHING, even I feel I am set to Height:100% when I have finished looking at the damn code! Removing these [...]

The CQWP is a fantasic webpart my only two annoyances are that you can only do 3 rules on the filtering and the second is that the results are a bit rubbish in terms of styling, look and feel.
There are two ways you can customise these results. First way is to put a DIV wrapper [...]

Whilst doing some branding work for a client I was asked ‘can we have different text colors’. I instantly thought of hours of HTML teaching and had visions of brightly coloured pages illuminating fire red, yellow and radioactive greens! So what I needed to do was lock it down so the client can dictate the colors but the [...]

Just a reminder that the Learning Gateway Conference is on the 15th July at The Belfrey in Birmingham. The conference is being held by Richard Willis and Alex Pearce and is design for people using innovative technologies within the education sector. I am not primarily based in the education sector but I do have a keen interest [...]

A quick check list of items you need backup before you move, delete or format your system.

Recently a good friend of mine Martin Coulthurst of Lightness recently backed up his computer and asked me about various things he would need to backup, I had a think and we bounced a few things back and forth [...]

A quick run down guide on how to start and become a UK Contractor

1. Raise some funds!
Before I thought about contracting I was doing freelance on the side and saving from my permanent job. This helped me raise a buffer of 4k to enable me in essence to quit my job sit on my backside [...]