SharePoint Branding

Hi..! SharePoint branding followers, this is step by step branding blogging is to help you people out of SharePoint branding issues. What we will be doing is will do complete branding top to bottom. First identifying a wireframe, building it to Photoshop Realistic Design, Converting Design into Working HTML, CSS and jQuery after that testing in Multiple Browsers and last not least Branding with SharePoint Designer 2010. In SharePoint Designer 2010 we have lots of steps like creating a new master page, page layouts, modifying the CSS and jQuery. Then creating custom themes with the office client, modifying themes in SharePoint Server. Planning site navigation and using non-SharePoint navigation, breadcrumb navigation and site map providers. Ok will start our work right now. Why Plan for Branding? You guy can jump into SharePoint designer and start creating master pages for SharePoint 2010 but in a project environment that will be a mistake. The process of actually creating a brand in a ...

brand as a "name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of other sellers. The companies have chosen a marketing identity that enables the public to quickly and easily recognize them. This is branding. When referring to websites, branding usually involves the colors, fonts, logos, and supporting graphics that make up the general look and feel of the website. The objectives that a excellent brand will achieve include: 1. Delivers the message clearly 2. Confirms your credibility 3. Connects your target prospects emotionally 4. Motivates the buyer 5. Concretes User Loyalty Branding for SharePoint Branding for SharePoint is similar to branding for any other sites, except that branding for SharePoint includes the master pages, page layouts, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), jquery, Web Parts and eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) . Basically ...

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.