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Using Custom Color for Section Backgrounds and Page Headers

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever wondered where the background colors in SharePoint modern pages comes from? You know, the ones for section background colors and site headers? Have you ever wondered how to change them to your own custom colors?

I had a client that wanted to be able to set the background for the site headers to a specific color. Unfortunately, the color they wanted wasn’t one of the four colors available through the SharePoint UI.

SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire Deck Posted

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The deck for my SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire has been posted to SlideShare. Thanks to everyone who came to my session.

Custom Search MasterPage for SharePoint 2010

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I wish I could say that I was smart enough to have figured this one out for myself but I can’t. I was working on my first custom branded SharePoint 2010 site and the search screen was all messed up. The navigation was displaying doubled. It turns out that the search center out of the box used minimal.master. This uses the placeholders that are in v4.master in different way so the search box ends up in the breadcrumb pull down. At any rate, Randy Drisgill wrote a great and very easy to follow post about how to modify your custom masterpage to the search center. It took me longer to create the feature to deploy the new search masterpage than it did to make the modifications.

Themes for your SharePoint 2010 environment

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I spend most of my time working on custom branding projects using SharePoint. These are great projects and tend to be large custom dev projects. They also tend to have larger budgets. But what about those clients that want a different look and feel but don’t have the large budget. Use a custom theme or template. There are several packaged themes out there for SharePoint 2010 that provide you with a look and feel that while not unique does change the way that SharePoint looks. The themes also provide some level of customization either during the purchase process or after. One of the key things to take into account is that there is probably going to be some level of customization to be done after the fact.

When Pigs Fly...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” - Joe Sparano

I have had the good fortune to work with some very talented designers in my career. They have taught me about the difference between good design and great design. The good is something that when you look at it makes you say wow. The great is when you don’t even realize that it was designed well; when something is so intuitive that you instantly know how to find what you are looking for or know how it works. As a web developer it was my job to translate the vision of the designer into SharePoint and make sure that what is great in PhotoShop is great in SharePoint. It is that pixel perfect philosophy that I bring to my work integrating design into SharePoint.