An important component of a return on investment analysis for software can be frequency of usage. SharePoint 2013 includes a web analytics service useful for this purpose. In a video overview titled Overview of SharePoint 2013 analytics features and implementation, Steve Peschka, Senior Principal Architect, Microsoft®, introduces us to the web analytics service for SharePoint […]
Modifying SharePoint 2013 Master Pages Part 2, Working with Master Pages with SharePoint Designer 2013
SharePoint Designer 2013 is the preferred method of customizing master pages for publishing sites in SharePoint 2013, on premises, or SharePoint Online, Office 365. In a video tutorial Making Changes to Master Pages, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, SharePoint MVP and published author demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer, 2013 to build a custom master page for a […]
Modifying SharePoint 2013 Master Pages Part 1
Master Pages for publishing sites in SharePoint 2013 can be modified by administrators and designers with a set of new methods. In a video tutorial, Making Changes to Master Pages, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, SharePoint MVP and published author demonstrates how to add a custom CSS to a master page template, and, thereby, create a custom master […]
Understanding the Look and Feel Options for Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2013 part 3
This is our third and final commentary on a video tutorial just published on SharePoint-Videos.com, Site level branding customizations for team sites. The previous two posts to this blog present the rest of our comments. “Navigation” presents the navigation settings for a site. As Yaroslav Pentsarskyy explains “In SharePoint 2013 there are two types of […]
Understanding the Look and Feel Options for Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2013 part 2
Publishing sites in SharePoint 2013 are highly customizable. As Yaroslav Pentsarskyy explains in a new video, Site level branding customizations for team sites, the new “Page Layouts and Templates” feature included in the “Look and Feel” section of SharePoint 2013 “Site Settings” provides ” . . . a way for an administrator of a developer […]
Understanding the Look and Feel Options for Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2013 part 1
With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft introduces a new section, “Look and Feel” to the Site Settings menu for administrators. In a video tutorial titled Site level branding customizations for team sites, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, SharePoint MVP, and published author, provides SharePoint administrators, designers, developers and architects with a brief tour of each of the features included in […]
End User Optimized Video Tutorials for SharePoint 2013 Help Hasten SharePoint Adoption
Organizations planning either an implementation of SharePoint 2013, or a migration to SharePoint 2013, may want to plan on offering optimized, on-demand, task specific training resources to end users, including site owners. Usually this planning makes sense for organizations looking to reduce the cost of SharePoint development and support by training end users to “self […]
Adding Web Page Components with SharePoint Designer 2013
SharePoint Designer 2013 neither includes Design, nor Split Views. Removing these features has created obstacles for organizations committed to SharePoint Designer, 2010, but with little interest in creating web page components with HTML, ASP or SharePoint tags. We don’t think the situation is catastrophic. Here’s why: In our video tutorial for SharePoint Designer 2010, Create […]
Managing Documents in SharePoint 2013 My Sites
SharePoint 2013 My Sites includes a set of features to support the “personal” side of this computing platform. In a video tutorial titled Managing Documents in My Site Asif Rehmani notes: “Document management at a personal level, for an individual, happens at the My Site of SharePoint.” Individuals need to be familiar with how to […]
Building Excel 2013 Data Visualizations with PowerView and Adding Them to SharePoint 2013
Back on February 25, 2013, in a post to this blog titled Changes in Excel Services for SharePoint with SharePoint 2013 we published word on changes in the PowerPivot feature of Excel. We quoted from an article titled “What’s New in PowerPivot in Excel 2013,” published by Microsoft on the topic of a more robust […]