If you aren’t aware of what favicons are, they are the little icon that appears in the corner of the address bar of your browser and along with your bookmarks. Here is a shot of SharePoint911’s favicon: Its really a…
In SharePoint 2007 getting your CSS to load last AFTER core.css was one of the major challenges we had to struggle with. This is critical because of the way CSS cascades, generally speaking if everything else is the same about…
So you have a nice custom master page and you are applying it all over your new SharePoint 2010 site, what happens when one of the new dialog boxes is loaded on the page (like when you click to edit…
I think rather than spend a lot of time posting lengthy blog posts about SharePoint 2010, I’m going to try instead to post several smaller SharePoint 2010 Branding Tips over the next few weeks. They will mostly be things that…
Just wanted to make a quick post to clear up some things that I THINK are misconceptions about SharePoint 2010 and XHTML compliance. First a disclaimer: I don’t work for Microsoft so I can’t say for certain what the final…
Maybe, not quite yet… you are probably still waiting for the public beta to release… but when it does, this will probably be one of the first things you want to look at. While the Visual Upgrade feature in 2010…
One thing I noticed right away when editing my SharePoint pages with IE8 was an annoying popup message that showed every time you navigate away from editing a page. “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?”:…
Some of the out of the box SharePoint page layouts use a in the middle of the page. If your custom branded master pages, css, or theme has a style called out for #footer that sets a crazy width or…
Ran into a new problem with SharePoint Designer today. Not sure how I caused this to happen but several files were marked as checked out in SPD despite the fact that the files were not checked out to anyone in…
I’m excited to announce that the SharePoint branding paper that I wrote with Andrew Connell has finally been published to the MSDN. I put a lot of effort into creating a paper that was concise (well it is pretty lengthy,…