In the 2010 out of the box master pages, Microsoft has included code that causes the ribbon to float above the rest of the page content (you might say it sticks to the top of the page). You can see…
My latest article for SD Times has been published to their website, titled Spotlight on 2010: The New Theming Engine. Obviously, it’s an overview of how themes work in SharePoint 2010. Check it out: Spotlight on 2010: The New Theming…
This question came in as a comment on a previous blog post. I’m sure there may be better ways to do this, but one thing I did on the site was to hide the ribbon completely for non authorized…
I just realized that my SD Times “SharePointer” article from September was published (probably has been for a while). This article is a simple example of how you can use conditional logic in XSL to color code XML data in…
In the tradition of those SharePoint branding folks that came before me, I have put together two minimal master pages that can be used to start a SharePoint 2010 Branding project. They contain only very minimal HTML styling in order…
Ok, its not really a branding tip, but I’m on a roll here. In SharePoint 2010 if you want to setup your site to allow anonymous visitors, the process is much like it is in SharePoint 2007 except that the…
This is really less of a tip and more of a temporary gotcha that exists in most of the builds I have tried for SharePoint 2010. As I understand it, this problem won’t be fixed until AFTER the public beta…
One of the really cool enhancements in SharePoint 2010 is the addition of the UseSimpleRendering property to the control. When UseSimpleRendering is set to True, the SharePoint navigation menu is rendered using a cleaner unordered HTML list. After some trial…
One interesting feature of SharePoint 2010 is that it automatically shows a nice mobile experience when mobile devices browse the site. There is no need to type in the mobile URL (by appending /m to the URL) as you had…
If you haven’t heard the news, let me spell it out for you… SharePoint 2010 will support many major browsers including IE7, IE8, FF3.5 and Safari4, but there is one browser that will not be supported by the out of…