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 [...]
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/. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Problem I’ve come across a handful of sticky footer solutions and many of them claiming to work in SharePoint. Most of the CSS ones just can’t cut it b/c of how SharePoint 2010 now adjusts [...]
I’ve been having major troubles when I am deploying my Node.js application. It will often get stuck deploying in t...
Introduction I love the FontAwesome library and use it on many projects. I was a huge fan of FontAwesome 4.0 and had a l...
Introduction After an event I like to wrap up some of my thoughts on how the event started and some of the lessons learn...