Omicron Llama

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February, 2012

13 02 2012

What The Hell Is A SharePoint Site Collection?

Jimmywim | beginners, sharepoint, site collection | 1

Here’s another introductory post about something that I always see confusion over when new users to SharePoint hear these terms – Site Collection and Web site. What the hell is the difference between the two? Here’s my TL;DR answer (followed by a lengthy discussion): SITE COLLECTIONS DO NOT STORE CONTENT A site collection is just […]

10 02 2012

SharePoint Development – What to Learn?

Jimmywim | beginners, c#, sharepoint, sharepoint development | 8

I thought I’d jot down a few things which I believe fresh SharePoint developers need to know when they’re confronted with the daunting task of developing something for SharePoint for the first time. SharePoint development has a massively steep learning curve. It literally takes years to get good at not only developing solutions in SharePoint, […]

5 02 2012

Applying CSS Customisations in SharePoint – A Technique

Jimmywim | branding, css, sharepoint | 5

Having done numerous branding exercises in SharePoint over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to try out various different methods of both loading CSS into your environment, and also the actual writing of the CSS. I have previous covered methods of loading CSS, and spoke about it in a video, which you […]