SharePoint 2010: Master Pages
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 IDs, navigation and controls. Below are few IDs.
div IDs
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 master page. while I am writing this blog I am also pretty new to share point 2010.
Applying New Master Pages
You can also use the SharePoint user interface to apply a new master page. for this you have to apply two features are given below.
Navigate to the landing page of your newly created site collection
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 IDs, navigation and controls. Below are few IDs.
div IDs
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 master page. while I am writing this blog I am also pretty new to share point 2010.
Applying New Master Pages
You can also use the SharePoint user interface to apply a new master page. for this you have to apply two features are given below.
Navigate to the landing page of your newly created site collection
- Click on “Site Actions”
- Click on “Site Collection Features”
- Activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” and
- Click on “Site Actions”
- Click on “Manage site features”
- Activate “SharePoint Server Publishing”
it will allow you to add new master page
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