In my last blog entry I gave some tips and tricks to creating a new SharePoint theme for your site. This is an important first step to rebranding your SharePoint site. Since this theme will take care of changing almost all of the font colours and backgrounds in SharePoint, it will save you tons of [...]
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SharePoint 2010 Branding: Creating a Theme
March 30, 2011 – 4:00 am
When designing a branded SharePoint site, the first task for any web designer should be to create a general SharePoint Theme. A SharePoint theme can be designed through the web browser, and then, with a bit of work, can be saved locally or deployed to a SharePoint site as a feature. The advantage to creating [...]
SharePoint 2010 Branding: Understanding the Components
March 16, 2011 – 4:00 am
SharePoint gives you a lot of control over what your site looks like. On top of applying a site theme, you can also create your own CSS rules, and customize the master page that will be applied to the entire site. However, if you’re coming from a web designing background where you’re used to having [...]
SharePoint 2010 Branding
March 2, 2011 – 4:00 am
A recent project that we have taken on is to completely re-brand our internal SharePoint site. What we wanted to achieve was to have our internal site match some recent branding changes, while still maintaining all of the functionality and flexibility of SharePoint. This is still a work in progress, but I thought I would [...]
SharePoint 2010 – Activating the Document ID Feature
February 16, 2011 – 4:00 am
SharePoint 2010 has now included an excellent out-of-the-box feature that allows you to automatically assign a unique document ID to all of your documents that are uploaded to your SharePoint site. This is a site-collection scoped feature, so the document IDs are guaranteed to be unique across the site collection that the feature has been [...]
Building a PerformancePoint Dashboard
February 2, 2011 – 4:02 pm
PerformancePoint services provides you with all of the tools to create a fully-functioning business intelligence dashboard. Right out of the box you have everything you need from analytic reports to KPI scorecards. In order to build these PerformancePoint objects, Microsoft has provided you with the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer. This dashboard designer gives you a visual [...]
Creating a Time Dimension
January 19, 2011 – 9:23 am
In my last blog entry I explained how to add time intelligence to your PerformancePoint dashboard. That blog was based on the assumption that you already had a time dimension created in your SQL Server Analysis Services cube. In this blog entry I will go over the different options you have to adding this time [...]
Adding Time Intelligence to Your PerformancePoint Dashboard
January 4, 2011 – 10:56 am
One of the many requirements of a good BI dashboard is that the user is able to view the BI metrics for a particular time period, or even for a particular day. There are many levels of implementation that are required to getting time intelligence in to PerformancePoint Services. The process goes end to end [...]
Comparing Distributed Caching Solutions
December 22, 2010 – 10:54 am
Preamble Over the past week or so I’ve been researching possible caching solutions to be used with a .Net web service. The current caching strategy involved sending cached data to an SQL database in order to avoid pulling search results from web queries every time a user performed a search. This certainly sped up the [...]
