Do  you ever have days when you sit back, take a breath and ponder just how rudimentary SharePoint Designer can feel when compared with a real IDE?

I know I do and it’s this very thought that compelled me to search for an alternative. What I ended up with was a quick and easy setup that allows me to have code collapse,  better syntax highlighting and jQuery Intellisense when I need to do some serious JavaScript editing.

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One of the biggest features of SharePoint 2010 is the Office Ribbon. Whether you love it or hate it, it’s here to stay and eventually you will be faced with the choice of including the ribbon within your site branding. What can be edited and changed in the ribbon? Microsoft spent millions, if not billions of dollars to research and develop the ribbon so how much should we change?

Just because we can…does it mean we should?

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I was faced with the challenge of creating my first fixed width SharePoint site and the content had to be centered!

SharePoint 2010 implements a complicated system of divs, css and JavaScript to attain their static ribbon at the top of the screen but unfortunately this can get messy with different layout types.

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