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My Favorite JavaScript Libraries and jQuery plugins
These are a few of my favorite and go to JavaScript libraries. These tend to work well in SharePoint with no problem. This is my personal list [...]
Working with SASS style sheets in Office 365 / SharePoint 2013
My new favorite thing is creating all my style sheets with SASS. SASS makes writing my style sheets faster, easier, cleaner, and more reusable. Don’t ask me why I chose SASS, but I liked it just a little [...]
Deploying Composed Look – The Declarative Method – Part 2
Back in December I posted a lengthy article on how to deploy a Composed Look for SharePoint 2013. If you haven’t read that it can be found here – http://tommdaly.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/deploying-a-custom-composed-look-in-sharepoint-2013/. [...]
My Sticky Footer Solution for SharePoint 2013 – Pure JavaScript Solution
Last year I posted a blog article which described the issue with SharePoint 2010 and having a footer. Well similarly SharePoint 2013 has some of the same obstacles when adding a footer. If you are interested [...]
SharePoint 2013 Theme Builder Tool
There is a tool released by Microsoft to assist with building SharePoint 2013 Themes more specifically the theme color palettes. This will help a lot when working with the .spcolor files and building custom [...]
Cache Busting Using CssRegistration & ScriptLink in SharePoint 2010
What is cache busting? Cache busting is way to ensure that the browser will download a new version of your file. This is easily accomplished using a simple technique of appending a ? with some unique characters [...]
Applying a Composed Look programmatically
Applying a theme has change from SP2010 to SP2013, here is a link to the method to apply a composed look. SPWeb.ApplyTheme( string colorPaletteUrl, string fontSchemeUrl, string backgroundImageUrl, bool [...]
Deploying a custom ‘Composed Look’ in SharePoint 2013
There are two ways to deploy your custom composed look. Via XML / Elements file – the declarative way, or via feature receiver / C# the imperative way. This article will cover both methods, it’s up [...]
SharePoint 2013 – Design Manager – Unable to map network drive, while working on the server
I’ve been experimenting heavily lately with SharePoint 2013 and the entire process wrapped around Branding sites. I am one of those people that rely on working on the actual SharePoint server because [...]
Theme Builder Lives On!
For those working with SharePoint 2010 themes this tools seemed to be amazing at giving me those .THMX files. Until they took it away, but they never told me it would come back as something else. If you [...]
SharePoint CSSRegistration or Link?
I must say that I’ve been using <link> for my style sheets for some times now. Until recently have seen the benefits from using the CSSRegstration method and now using that exclusively from now [...]
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Introduction Over a year ago I create a cross site collection navigation solution aka global navigation for Modern Share...
TL;DR Go here for the code + instructions: https://github.com/tom-daly/spfx-global-navigation Modern version works with:...
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