Professional SharePoint® 2010 Branding and User Interface Design

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

AS A READER of many technical books, I was never really aware of the amount of effort and long

nights that go into making them. A few years ago, I worked on my fi rst technical book and quickly

realized that my dreams of retiring rich and famous after spending a few nights writing were noth-

ing more than a fever dream. For this book, I experienced a whole new set of challenges trying to

rapidly gather tons of information about SharePoint 2010 branding and putting that knowledge to

the test on real-world projects before the author team could even start writing. Because of this, I

have a lot of different people to thank for making the book a reality.

First, obviously, the writing team on this book really went the distance to make sure we created the

best collection of SharePoint 2010 branding knowledge that we knew how to create, in what ended up

being a fairly compressed schedule by the time the fi nal bits for SharePoint 2010 were released to us.

This includes Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, Larry Riemann, and, of course, my partner in crime, John

Ross. John Ross deserves a special shout out for being the inspiration for one of the major focuses for

the book. His idea was to not only put out a book that would serve to help out people who need to do

extremely custom SharePoint branding, but to also focus a good portion of the book on those that are

new to these concepts and need to just add a little style to their SharePoint sites.

Along with the writing team, anot ...