Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
When 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.
Read moreBy default search suggestions are enabled on the default search boxes in SharePoint 2013. Show image Search Suggestions Server administrators are still able to manually add search suggestions via PowerShell, but the commands have been changed a little. Check out the following blog post how to do it in SharePoint 2010.
Read moreSince SharePoint 2013 introduced the display templates, branding elements has been made a lot easier. Like for instance when you want to brand the search box on your site. In the previous versions you mostly started the job by overriding the standard CSS of SharePoint. This approach will still work, but there is now an easier way.
Read moreThis week I started with a branding upgrade project from 2010 to 2013. Throughout this upgrade process I needed to customize the OOTB small search input box (the search box that is shown at the top right of the site). The requirements were the following: Changing the default text (change the “search this site” text); Allow query suggestions (this is enabled by default in 2013); Change the result page address.
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