SharePoint User Group UK Meeting – Nottingham

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 … Continue reading

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SharePoint Conference 2009 – Vegas

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. … Continue reading

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Squashed SharePoint site when viewing Properties in Edit Mode

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 … Continue reading

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Customising the Content Query Web Part list results

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 … Continue reading

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Adding Custom Styles to the RichTextEditor (RTE) in SharePoint

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 … Continue reading

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Learning Gateway Conference & the logos

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 … Continue reading

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The 10 step Web Designers check list for backing up

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 … Continue reading

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The 10 step guide to being a UK Contractor

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 … Continue reading

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Top 20 UK Local Government Websites

I think it is useful to see what councils are offering people in terms of accessibility and standards. These results are top 20 best website in the UK based on the SOCITM – “Better connected 2007 – A snapshot of … Continue reading

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JavaScript Error when Moving WebParts in a CSS and DIV’d up MasterPage

I spent a lot of time trying to put SharePoint in a nice place where it could flourish without being bullied by other sites that conform to accessibility standards. So you can probably understand my anger when I discovered that my … Continue reading

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