Author Archives: Scott McLeod

SharePoint 2010 XML Navigation with Selected Highlighted Tabs

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Scott McLeod

So you’ve got you XML Navigation set up and ready to go on your SharePoint 2010 Site. You log into your site and now you noticed that the XML has no idea what site you are on and so the Top Navigation Tab isn’t selected (highlighted) when you click on a site and some of your end users use this as a queue to know what site they are on because it stands out a little more than the site title. The Steps below will get you your XML Navigation implemented onto the Master Page and all of the tools that will help you control the behavior of your navigation.  
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Posted in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio | 3 Comments

SharePoint 2010 Master Page with Footer That Stays at the Bottom of your SharePoint 2010 Site

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Scott McLeod

In SharePoint 2007 it was easy to have a footer sit at the bottom of your master page and stay at the bottom.  You simply added another row to your table at the bottom of your master page and that is where your footer would sit.  
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Creating a Fixed Width SharePoint 2010 Masterpage (Updated)

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Scott McLeod

Many are curious to find out how to style a SharePoint 2010 Masterpage the correct way when going for a fixed width site design. After all, Microsoft hasn’t given us an out of the box example like they did with in MOSS 2007 when they conveniently gave us the bluetabs.master and many of the other fixed width Masterpages.
  
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Posted in CSS, Development, SharePoint 2010 | 23 Comments

Back to the Basics: CSS Styling and HTML Development (Part 3) Div’s and Tables

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Scott McLeod

The third and final part of our Back to the Basics Web Series will focus on understanding Div tags and Table tags. Along with a host of best practices.  
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Back to the Basics: CSS Styling and HTML Development (Part 2) Cascading Style Sheets

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Scott McLeod

Part 2 of our Back to the Basics Web Series will focus on Cascading Style Sheets, Style Attributes and Style Properties.   
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Back to the Basics: CSS Styling and HTML Development (Part 1) HTML

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Scott McLeod

We are introducing a 3 part series for basic CSS styling, design, and rules. This first part will deal with understanding basic html to help get us started.  
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Shutting Down the Mobile Redirect for SharePoint 2010 Websites

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Scott McLeod

Have you created a public facing SharePoint website, but every time you try to visit the site on a mobile phone you get a login security prompt? This issue occurs because the SharePoint Site reads your user agent on your cellphone as a mobile browser and redirects your phone to the mobile version of the website. Your site allows for anonymous users, but that access only seems to be allowed when using a web browser on a desktop computer. That’s because the SharePoint 2010 mobile site only works with authenticated users, therefore not allowing anonymous users to visit.
  
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SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and Configuration Mapping

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Scott McLeod

Are you a SharePoint 2010 Administrator or User?  SharePoint 2010 has plenty of new Features, and many that are the same as MOSS and WSS before it.  Along with these new features and rehashed features and utilities comes a new User Interface.  Once you figure out how to add a new Web App and Site Collection, you forget where you need to configure Content Databases or add Site Collection Administrators.   
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