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What if Apple Designed SharePoint?

By Chris Poteet on February 3, 2012

Before I get started on this post, I need to be honest with two important points.  First, I realize that Apple would most likely never desire to create a product like SharePoint.  Apple is primarily a consumer electronics company and not as concerned with the corporate world. Secondly, I’m thoroughly an Apple user, and I do […]

Posted in Design, SharePoint, User Experience | Tagged apple, microsoft | Leave a response

Default Markup Styles

Removing and Replacing Default SharePoint Ribbon Styles

By Chris Poteet on December 5, 2011

SharePoint 2010 (and most likely future versions) provides default styles in the ribbon. You can see these with the “Styles” and “Markup Styles” sections of the ribbon. Here is an example of the “Markup Styles” section in action. What if a client does not want the default ones in there? You could overwrite them in […]

Posted in Content Management, SharePoint, User Interface | Tagged page layout, ribbon, styles | Leave a response

Using a DOCTYPE in SharePoint 2007

By Chris Poteet on October 20, 2011

While SharePoint 2007 certainly moved the platform forward for its time, there is no doubt that doing UI work with the CMS is nothing short of excruciating. The reason for this is (a) really, really bad markup and (b) no DOCTYPE (SharePoint Designer doesn’t help the cause either).  There is a lot you can do […]

Posted in SharePoint, User Interface | Tagged 2007, doctype, master page, moss, publishing | Leave a response

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