SharePoint Themes (free and premium) @NBBranding

4 Aug
2012

Looking for master pages & themes for your SharePoint 2010 installation? While still in its infancy, check out nothing but branding. A collaboration between Mark Miller of EUSP and GSoft Group, this site covers branding of SharePoint in their blog, while selling premium (and a free one) themes for SharePoint. It seems like a promising project, and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes.

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Custom background not appearing after updating to WordPress 3.3

24 Dec
2011

I recently updated WordPress on a site I’m working on to version 3.3 (using a Thematic child theme), and now my custom background has disappeared. I’ve been scouring the internet and haven’t come up with anything. Anybody know what’s up with this?

Anything knew I find I’ll post here. I’ve also started a thread in the wordpress forum.

Customizing Blog Sites in Sharepoint 2010

6 Jun
2011

A couple of tips:

  • Make all of your changes to default.aspx, post.aspx, category.aspx, etc. BEFORE you add your master page. This might be a sloppy way of doing things, but it’s working for me right now…
  • If you are making multiple blogs, create one blog as you like it, categories, first post, stylesheet, logo, etc. Save the site as a template, enable that site in the allowed site templates, and create iteration after iteration of it. I’m making a multi-level blog setup for a school…this seems to work pretty well.
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Starting in WordPress

8 May
2011

So I’ve started designing in wordpress. Historically I started out in plain ‘ol HTML. I moved from there to, of all things, coldfusion. Built a few sites in coldfusion from scratch before I heard about content management systems. Starting building content management systems in PHP by hand, until I discovered Drupal.

Drupal is my weapon of choice when designing websites. Extremely extensible, relatively easy to theme, and quite easy to install and transport. Currently I am working in Sharepoint 2010 as a full-time designer. Definitely a learning process.

And as of this weekend, I’ve finally bitten the bullet and installed wordpress. I knew it was easy to use, I just wasn’t much of a blogger. But Drupal’s blogging system wasn’t really for me. Too bulky, too much work to set it up just for that purpose. For my needs, wordpress seems to work quite well for this site. I can post by email (meaning I don’t need to figure out how to skirt the great firewall of China (where I’m based)), I can have basic pages, and I can theme the crap out of it. Pretty good tool so far. The only downside I see is the installation and moving process. Seems a bit finicky. Guess we’ll see!