Category: Master Page

How to Create a Master Page that is Available for the Composed Looks

In this post I will show you how you can create a new master page that can be selected in the Site Layouts menu when you are changing the look of your site (Site Settings > Change the look). One part that I did not cover yet, is the Site Layouts option in the Composed Looks (Site Settings > Change the look > Select a composed look) and how you can add other layouts to it.

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Pinning SharePoint 2010 Sites With IE9

Thanks to Katrien De Graeve for giving me the inspiration of this blog post. Last week on the HTML5 Web Camp session in Belgium, she talked about the site pinning functionality of IE9. She also recommended a jQuery plugin called ie9ify that makes site pinning integration much easier. The day after the session I started experimenting with the ie9ify plugin, and it was working as suspected.

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Adding a Subsites Navigation Level Under the Global Navigation Row

Normally subsites are displayed in a dropdown menu when the site collection publishing feature is activated. Show image Subsite navigation dropdown In this post I will show you how to display these subsites on their own navigation row. The end result is shown in the picture below. Show image Final result Hide the subsites dropdown menu First you need to hide the subsites dropdown menu from the global navigation.

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Minimal.master with footer

This blog post is created by a request of a commenter named Gane. He asked me how to add a footer section to the “minimal.master” master page. This master page is used for the search centers in SharePoint 2010. My previous solution for adding a footer to a master page, were based on the “v4.

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V4.master Sticky Footer With Docked Ribbon

After getting the footer working in the undocked version, I have tried to get it to work with a docked ribbon.

The problem is that SharePoint’s Javascript will automatically calculate the exact size of the div “s4-workspace” each time you click on the ribbon or a webpart. This will push the footer off the screen or the bottom from the scrollbar falls of the screen.

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