Microsoft Lists is just a new user interface for SharePoint Lists, and they are SharePoint Lists we always had and used for a very long time.
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CSS Media Queries in JavaScript
There are many ways to react to layout changes in HTML. You can use Resize Observers, Intersection Observer or Mutation Observers.
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A Design Review on Site Logos in SharePoint
In one of the latest design iterations, the site logo has changed to incorporate the new Fluent UI design. The site logo has now rounded borders. Let’s do a quick design review of how this work or don’t work for some companies.
In the end, you will learn a trick on how to revert the changes, Microsoft did on the logo.
Design Review: Page layout and typography of communication sites
This time we take a look at the fundamentals on the page and text layout on modern SharePoint pages in communication sites. The text layout is the essential design element on web sites and the intranet. 95% of a current information system is base on just text.
First, let us define some basics on typography on the web to have a better understanding later on the available layout options we currently have.
New Teams Meeting experience is a tenant setting, not an application setting
If you like to enable the new meeting experience for Microsoft Teams, you might assume that this setting is application based.
Teams settings that enables the new meeting experience
Native lazy-loading images with aspect-ratio
Recently two changes have been shipped with the latest browsers versions that impact your development today too. In short, you can now better define the loading behaviour for images. It’s big news in case of performance and usability. Those changes are:
- Always use height and width on images
- Natively Lazy-load images and iframes
Make your web part work with coloured page sections
This blog post is outdated – Develop SPFx web parts for different section designs using CSS
When you put your custom web part in a coloured page section in SharePoint, you might have recognised that there is a white border around the web part.
Web Part in coloured and uncoloured section
Introducing the idea of Archive Hub Sites
A common practice these days is to organise site collection in hub sites. It gives you a great possibility to arrange your content more dynamically than ever before in SharePoint. On specific site type, we are dealing in any SharePoint project, for example, are project sites.
These project workspaces only have a defined start and end date. A site collection like this can be useful for a couple of weeks, to month or in case of long-running projects for years. What to do when the workspace reached his end of life?
Whitespace – Regain distraction-free working in SharePoint
Recently many new user interface element got introduced to SharePoint that provides additional information about other services in Office 365. While you can argue this information might be valuable for users, you can also say that that information is just a consumer marketing attempt for already paid products.
In general, to keep the user informed it is a great thing to have a feature like this but from a design perspective and even end-user experience, those elements are not optimal. If this kind of information is valuable for the user inside an organisation, it is up to the organisation and not a decision made by any service provider.
To be clear, if this shows up on a free OneDrive user interface, but it is not something for a corporate environment.