Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
Putting HTML design files in the SharePoint Master Page Gallery feels a bit like adding them into a mysterious black box, you don’t know exactly what is going to happen with them. This blog post covers my first experiences with provisioning Display Templates to the Master Page Gallery. The process of provisioning your design files is a bit trial and error when you are not using the design manager.
Read moreWhen working with the new search centers in SharePoint 2013, the first thing that you will notice is that the title row is different compared with for example a standard Team Site. Show image Standard SharePoint 2013 Title Row Show image Search Center Heading - Title Row is Hidden As you can see, the title row (red box) where the top navigation should be, is replaced by the search icon and search box (orange box).
Read moreSharePoint 2013 got very social, everything can be tagged, followed, shared. But these new social features require some user adoption, and it could be that your client does not want to have this functionality. This is exactly what a client of us requested, they did not want to have the Follow and Share actions on their site and document libraries.
Read moreWhen upgrading my clients’ page layouts from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, I stumbled on something annoying. The content of my page layouts was not being updated when I deployed a new version of my page layout solution. Everything seemed to be correct, because the file itself was correctly provisioned the first time.
Read moreFooters and SharePoint that was the starting point of this blog. Back in August 2010, I blogged about how to create a sticky footer for your SharePoint 2010 sites (blog post can be found here and here). Now it is time to upgrade this sticky footer solution to SharePoint 2013.
Read moreNew SharePoint versions can be challenging, especially when it comes to branding your sites. When you are in a migration process like me, you will probably have to re-do the branding to support the new functionalities. Assuming that everything will work like before can be really disappointing. There are a lot of new functionalities, which means that your design will also need to support these functionalities.
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