November 2010
Beginner
454 pages
15h 15m
English
book
Professional SharePoint® 2010 Branding and User Interface Design
by Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, Larry Riemann
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Simple Branding
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
Using the ribbon to create and edit web page content
➤
Using SharePoint 2010 themes to apply colors and fonts to a
➤
SharePoint site
Using Cascading Style Sheets with SharePoint 2010
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Creating a simple master page with minor changes to the default
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look and feel
A primary focus of this book is to help users
of all levels of experience learn to make
changes to their SharePoint user interface.
This chapter is designed to provide an intro-
duction to creating SharePoint branding —
without getting bogged down in learning all
the nuts and bolts. Whether you are new to
SharePoint or a site owner who just needs to
make your site look more like your existing
corporate look and feel with colors and minor
branding, this chapter is a great place to start.
As discussed in Chapter 1, there are three
approaches to branding in SharePoint 2010.
See Figure 5-1 for a reminder.
This chapter focuses on the upper portion of
the triangle — the low and medium effort approaches to branding — diving only briefl y into
Low Eort
Out-of-the-Box Master Pages
and Theme
s
Medium Eort
Custom Themes with or
without Alternate CSS
Full Eort
Custom Master Pages and
Page Layouts
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