Fixing the slight shift on SharePoint web part titles when hovering
When customizing SharePoint sites you most certainly will make some type of change to the web part title. When editing the page you will notice sometimes when you hover over the title to edit the web...
View ArticleSharePoint 07 styles showing in my 2010 site
While testing out a customization for a client site, I noticed in the out of the box picture library that the list had some of the 2007 look and feel. While the top still looked okay, I wasn’t quite...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 customizations and the modal dialog
I blogged on this once before, but I just found the text part posted from 12/29/2009. So I am posting it again with updates. When creating a custom master page with SharePoint 2010 you will run into...
View ArticleUsing the .s4-titlerowhidetitle in your custom master page.
When creating a custom master page you want to make sure to keep the s4-titlerowhidetitle class. If you don’t have this in your custom master page you can find the tag directly after the...
View ArticleCustomizing the search box in SharePoint 2010
In this blog post I will show you how to customize the search area in the header of your custom master page. Since this site is for an intranet, I started by making a copy of the v4.master and renaming...
View ArticleHow to properly hide ContentPlaceHolders in your SharePoint 2010 Master Page
Recently I had a friend ask me to help him with an issue on a page layout they were having. When he opened the page in SharePoint designer and went to edit the page layout, he saw this message. The...
View ArticleThe importance of keeping the SharePoint:DelegateControl...
Here is another gotcha when creating a custom master page. At times you might want to remove delegate controls that you are not using in a custom master page. Here is one delegate control that will...
View ArticleSticky Top Nav SharePoint 2010
Navigation in SharePoint is definitely a branding pain point. The code improved with 2010, but it was still missing something. Selected Parent with Drop Down When you have a parent item selected, it...
View ArticleSuggested Reading from our Responsive Web Design Presentation
Here are the links that I listed in our presentation on Responsive Web Design at the 2013 SharePoint Evolutions Conference in London. There are many more blog posts that I have bookmarked, but I think...
View ArticleAdding a Left Navigation Menu in a Page Layout
Sometimes you are presented with a SharePoint design and you think, yeah that will work just fine. Once you have the design in hand and start the branding process you come across an issue that you...
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