Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • That annoying moment in a project when you discover you underestimated the complexity of a task

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    It happens. Hopefully less often as you get more experience under your belt. You take a quick look at a task on a project and based on previous experience with “similar” tasks, you give what you think is a fairly accurate estimate of how much time and effort it will take. And then you start…

  • CSS classes based on page location

    When styling SharePoint sites, it can be very useful to add specific styles to specific “pages” or views. Here’s a bit of jQuery/javascript code to make that possible. It works by grabbing the page location turning it into classes that are added to the body tag. jQuery(document).ready(function($){ //use a javascript variable to hold the results…

  • Nearly automatic breadcrumbs

    Breadcrumbs var here = location.href.replace(/(\?.*)$/,”).split(‘/’).slice(3); var parts = [{ “text”: ‘Home’, “link”: ‘/’ }]; for( var i = 0; i < here.length; i++ ) { var part = here[i]; var pageName = part.toLowerCase(); pageName = part.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + part.slice(1); var link = ‘/’ + here.slice( 0, i + 1 ).join(‘/’); $(‘#siteBreadcrumb ol.breadcrumb’).append(‘<li><a href=”‘ + link +'”>’…