Posted in: SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Branding, Thoughts
A few weeks ago I took advantage of a quiet and rainy weekend to dive into SharePoint 2013. Considering my love for branding, my primary focus was to see what had changed when it comes to switching up the look of a SharePoint site. I considered giving you the run down of all the new [...]
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I have been using Firebug for more years than I can count and I have been an avid supporter. In fact, Firebug is probably the one reason why I continue to use Firefox as my go to browser for web development. Today, however, I noticed a new entry in my contextual menu called “Inspect Element”. [...]
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This weekend I decided to take a little stroll around SharePoint Online. I had poked around the Team Site template already but I was really curious about how a publishing site would behave. So, I went ahead and created a site using the Publishing Template. The root site I was working from was created using [...]
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The other day a public facing website that had been built upon the SharePoint 2010 platform was experiencing some scrolling issues. After a date with Google and a few furrowed brows, I crafted a hybrid solution of my own that worked best for my particular scenario. The Problem Scrolling did not work when visiting the [...]
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Sometimes as a SharePoint front-end developer you have to sacrifice the desire for the leanest code possible in order to create a better authoring experience. Take for example the common requirement for authors to add Quick Links to a page. The Summary Link Web Part is perfect for this task but I would often overlook [...]
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I mentioned in my previous post that I had a plan to work on a mobile site for Brain Lava. Well, the next day I created some alternate CSS using the CSS3 media queries. It was working fine both in portrait and landscape mode for my iPhone but when I tested it against a friend’s [...]
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I will admit it, this site has been a very long time coming. Brain Lava is a domain that I registered many moons ago with the idea that I wanted it to be a place where I could share my technical thoughts. Over the years, however, I never seemed to find the time to create [...]
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