SharePoint Branding

Creating You own Master Page Professional recommend when you do complete branding go for the starter master page (Formerly known as Minimal Master Pages). for further details you can go to below link. http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com/ Basically starter master page will look like this when you are trying to modify a master page the difficult part is Changing the Position of the Ribbon . To start you have to identify important div ID s, navigation and controls . Below are few IDs. div ID s 1. #s4-ribbonrow 2. .s4-ribbonrowhidetitle 3. #s4-workspace 4. #s4-bodycontainer navigation and controls Changing how the Ribbon looks: Just like any Share Point 2010: Master Pages branding it takes time and patience. To style the ribbon. now another important thing is one java script witch handles the V4 version. don't ever remove this code because it handles all the version information related to share point 2010. Above information are most important when it come to creating a complete new

Share point CSS guide is about how to modify certain classes and IDs. It means what? After re-factoring the master page you have to identify all the controls. these controls are inbuilt in share point. Actually using this guide line what we are going to do is restyle control areas through CSS classes and IDs. Below chart is a useful link that completely shows how to control styles of components like site actions, advance search, navigations top and left and other components. CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007 Note: The default CSS files are located on the web server in the following directory: Local Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES. Additional styles are located in the Publishing feature: Local Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\PublishingLayouts\en-us

Hi Guys.. I was working in a US project for last three months... this is all about Share point.... share point.... share point.... When it comes to UI what it matters is master paging, layout pagers and Theming. To complete these task I went through certain web sites and Blogs. I'm willing to share these with professionals who need it. Tomorrow I will be sharing these Informations. Until that I like to share certain tips that you have to follow. 1) Master Page - Try to use minimum master page with all its place holders. 2) layout Pagers - Identify all types of information outputs and gather user requirements and create simple HTML layout pagers first. Then transfer these to .aspx files with required place holders. 3) Theming - This is the most difficult part and time consuming task in share point 2007. create your own Theme. After that define that Theme for the sites and modify theme.css for your best UI. Ignore other style sheets for basic level.