Tag Archives: design

Picking your users brains.. not literally

Launching a SharePoint intranet & the branding is done? what do your users actually want? That’s the hard part.. “I don’t know what I want but when I see it I will know” Now is the time to explode! We … Continue reading

Posted in End user adoption, User experience | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

PinkPetrol SharePoint 2010 Master Page & Styles

After my recent presentations at both SharePoint Saturday UK and SharePoint User Group UK, I have decided it would be a good idea and great help to people to release the ‘this is what I prepared earlier’ files including styles, … Continue reading

Posted in Branding, CSS, SharePoint | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Making the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon scroll like a normal site!

So Microsoft decided to dock/stick/fix the ribbon to the top of the page like so. Whilst in my session I covered how to make this scroll and gain a lot of questions – Why did they do this? and what … Continue reading

Posted in Branding, CSS, SharePoint | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Top 20 Examples of Creative Search Areas within SharePoint

Continuing with the series of my SharePoint Top 20, I now bring you Top 20 Examples of Creative Search Areas within SharePoint. So let the showcase begin…. 1. WesTrac Cat I am a keen fan of gradients which can work really … Continue reading

Posted in CSS, SharePoint, Top 20, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Conferences & Events, SharePoint | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in CSS, SharePoint | Tagged , , , | 2 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 … Continue reading

Posted in CSS, SharePoint | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in CSS, SharePoint | Tagged , , , | Leave a 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 … Continue reading

Posted in Contracting & Freelancing, Web Design | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment