Focuses on SharePoint Branding and Customization
This is one of those annoying SharePoint Branding “gotchas” that I often back myself into when creating custom branding for a SharePoint site. I generally waste time trying to remember what causes this issue and how to fix it so I’m posting it here so that I won’t waste a moment trying to figure out [...]
I recently presented Lessons Learned by a SharePoint Designer at two SharePoint Saturdays (Richmond and Columbus). The session outlines 10 lessons I learned through my experiences scoping, designing, customizing and managing SharePoint projects. The session focuses on project and risk management of larger SharePoint branding projects. After some surveys and discussions, I found my audience wanted me [...]
Heather Solomon is BACK!! The original SharePoint branding guru has has a beautiful new SharePoint 2010 blog. Check out her post, “Just the Essentials” SharePoint Master Pages She has put together three different SharePoint 2010 starter master page files for download. These include master pages for both non-publishing and publishing sites. All are heavily commented. [...]
Have you ever sat in front of a client and heard them say, “We don’t care what it looks like as long as it doesn’t look like SharePoint.” If so, you have heard the most common request for SharePoint Design. Hopefully that is changing. The comic below illustrates how silly this requirement is.
As I was researching SharePoint 2010 Design for our new book Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 (wrox), I collected several links to good resources. I hope you find them as helpful as I did. I tried to bucket them in order of design/dev cycle. Why? Probably because I’m an Information Architect at heart. No reason really. [...]
Branding alone cannot support the user experience in SharePoint. The successful redesign of an existing SharePoint site is dependent on multiple factors that are often overlooked.
This session is designed for Architects, Designers, and IT Pros and includes the following:
-Common Causes of Branding Problems in SharePoint
-Demonstration of “crappy content” and impact on branding
Overview of the elements of User Experience (UX)
-Methods to improve user experience and overall look and feel without touching a master page
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