Change your public site's home page (2010/2013)
Body: For some unknown reason, the ability to change a Sharepoint site's home page is available in the site settings for team sites (Look and feel»Welcome), but hidden for public sites. If you don't...
View ArticleChange logo size - 2013 public site
Body: To resize your logo - or any image - normally you could just add some custom css to the image. The containing element should then expand to accommodate the image. Due to poor coding practices in...
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Edit A 2013 Public Site Master Page: Change The Favicon
Body: Here's one way to change the favicon for your 2013 public site by editing a master page. The same technique can also be used to edit other elements.First upload a favicon image to an anonymously...
View ArticleDisappearing images? The easy way to update your image links
Body: If you followed the transition guide instructions and pasted your OLSB content to your 365 site and all of a sudden your images have disappeared, here's an easy fix which doesn't require...
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Create a custom form on your public site
Body: Allowing your site visitors to leave feedback, register for an event or interact in other ways via forms is an essential component of any web site. This was easy in OLSB but unfortunately the...
View ArticleHow to redirect your OLSB urls to your new pages and keep the SEO gods happy
Body: If you're moving to O365, your page urls will change and be seen as new pages by the search engines. This solution won't fix that but will mitigate its impact by ensuring backlinks, bookmarks and...
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Office 365 Public Site Video Pop Ups
Body: The problem. You'd expect the "embed code" tool to allow you to add a simple javascript pop up code to a public site page so you can have a video or other content pop up on demand. But it doesn't...
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Adding Custom Styling To The Office 365 Sharepoint 2013 Public Website
Body: A few people have asked me recently why custom code added to the stylesheet in the public site editor isn't working. For example, when they add code to make the logo bigger, nothing happens. If...
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Use separate sub domains (or domains) for BOTH your 365 public sites!
Body: When your 2010 Office 365 account is converted to 2013, you end up with 2 public web sites. Officially, you can only assign a personal domain to one of the sites but in reality it's quite easy...
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Get more web parts for the 365 public site
Body: It's great that you can add web parts to the public site – but in one of those pointless moves seemingly designed to needlessly frustrate users – MSFT decided to limit the web parts made...
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Fix For Office 365 2010 Style Public Site When Chrome Updates Break Header
Body: If your site looks like this when viewed in Chrome: DO THIS! Declare a height for the header element by adding this to your custom stylesheet: .MS_MasterHeader { height:xxxpx; } Adjust the xxx to...
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Add A Site Description To Office 365 Sharepoint Online 2013 Public Sites
Body: Yep – removing the site description was another of those 2013 public site "upgrades"…. Has MSFT ever heard of SEO?? The 2010 asp placeholder for this element doesn't work in 2013 sites, and there...
View ArticleAccess hidden Office 365 Sharepoint Online site locations with windows explorer.
Body: When you open a site in windows explorer, you're actually exposing the root of the site which can be useful if you need to add a file to the root or view your sitemap etc. Frustratingly though,...
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Add Additional Levels To Office 365 Sharepoint 2013 Site Navigation
Body: If you want to add more levels to the drop down or quick launch navigation in a Sharepoint 2013 site, you can do it by making a small change to the master page in use. This technique should work...
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Adding A Dropdown Filter To Improve List Navigation In Office 365 Sharepoint...
Body: Sharepoint lists/libraries include various filtering options to help users find what they're looking for. But the built in, "Excel" like filters and the default form filter web parts aren't very...
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How To Access List Settings For The Contact Us Form App In Office 365...
Body: The Contact Us Form App from the Sharepoint store can't be opened in Sharepoint Designer and its submissions list comes with a limited set of ribbon tools which restricts what you can do with the...
View ArticleCentering The Logo and Navigation In An Office 365 Sharepoint 2013 Public Web...
Body: Centering a logo in An Office 365 Sharepoint 2013 Public Web Site is fairly straightforward because it has a fixed width so can be positioned "absolutely" within its containing element. The...
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Adding A “File Extension” Field To A Sharepoint 2013 Document Library
Body: The default "type" field in a SP library is configured to show a document type ICON, which isn't very useful if you want to store document types for which there's no prescribed icon. I wrote...
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