Posts Tagged ‘design’

January 12th, 2010 | No Comments »

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 and my thought process when doing design and branding. The session is called Making SharePoint [...]

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September 30th, 2009 | No Comments »

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 I am set to Height:100% when I have finished looking at the damn code! Removing these [...]

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September 30th, 2009 | No Comments »

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 are two ways you can customise these results. First way is to put a DIV wrapper [...]

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September 30th, 2009 | No Comments »

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 to do was lock it down so the client can dictate the colors but the [...]

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May 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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 need to backup, I had a think and we bounced a few things back and forth [...]

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