The following updates have been made to this article since it’s publication: [Update 9/7/2016] – The method suggested by Håkan Nilsson only works with Publishing Enabled so that you can access [...]
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/. [...]
Recently I was asked to make a free floating navigation element, so that when you scroll down the page it would follow. There are many adaptations of this but for standard html websites, but I was unable [...]
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 [...]
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’m compiling a list of my favorite XSL tip and tricks that always help me. These items are not going to be in any particular order 1) Linking Javascript or CSS ]]> 2) Stripping HTML the first [...]
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 [...]
In this post we are going to create a 2 tier navigation menu using SPServices. In this scenario we’ll be replacing the current quick launch and putting in our new navigation. This will work with whatever [...]
I was recently asked to get the navigation to work on a tablet. Well part of the problem is the there is really no such thing as a Hover on those devices. Once you touch the screen it’s considered [...]
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...