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Comment on SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization Resources by Tom Daly

Tom Daly — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:34:55 +0000

nice comprehensive list of very useful branding resources. Here’s a few more you may or may not know about.

Another great mockup tool – Balsamiq – http://www.balsamiq.com/

A useful Theme tool – Microsoft Theme Builder – http://connect.microsoft.com/ThemeBuilder ; expires on 6/30/2012

Understanding Conditional CSS – http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

Comment on Top 10 Mistakes in SharePoint 2010 Branding and UI Design by Tom Daly

Tom Daly — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:25:19 +0000

Great Post! definitely seen one or many of these when re-branding client sites.

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Comment on Lesson Learned: When To Use Publishing in SharePoint by Bijay Kumar (@fewlines4biju)

Bijay Kumar (@fewlines4biju) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:31:46 +0000

Very good article, exactly what I was looking for.

Comment on Top 10 Mistakes in SharePoint 2010 Branding and UI Design by Marcy Kellar

Marcy Kellar — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:13:41 +0000

Good idea. thanks

Comment on Top 10 Mistakes in SharePoint 2010 Branding and UI Design by Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:39:42 +0000

Great post! I especially liked your points 1 and 8.

As for point 6: instead of tweaking the home page to hide the QuickLaunch, you can simply create a new Web Part page (QuickLaunch is hidden by default) and make it the home page (with just one click in the ribbon).

Comment on Top 10 Mistakes in SharePoint 2010 Branding and UI Design by Marcy Kellar

Marcy Kellar — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:25:23 +0000

I’m glad I took the original #5 out. Your persistent debate was valuable Thanks for helping me with review.

Comment on Top 10 Mistakes in SharePoint 2010 Branding and UI Design by Veronique Palmer

Veronique Palmer — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:53:11 +0000

Nice one Marcy, thanks.

Comment on Top 10 Mistakes in SharePoint 2010 Branding and UI Design by Drew Bills

Drew Bills — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:23:08 +0000

Very nice! Great point about the fixed ribbon, glad you have it on here.

Comment on Top 10 Mistakes in SharePoint 2010 Branding and UI Design by Erik Swenson

Erik Swenson — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:41:30 +0000

Great breakdown Marcy!
I would have to agree that over the last 8 years of branding SharePoint I have seen every one of these mistakes being done. I sometimes find myself going down some of these rabbit holes and need to pull myself out. I really think we all need to sit back and look at the project as a whole and identify areas of consolidation and simplification. I totally agree that we have been so quick to jump into creating new master pages or page layouts due to the fact that it is really easy to apply them with feature stapling. And like you said in most cases CSS used in the right way can solve most of the user and business needs.
Thanks again! And your PDF plugin does really rock! I might have to find a way to get that as a SharePoint 2010 option for printing pages…