Tag Archives: sharepoint branding
Transfering SharePoint 2010 branding customizations to Visual Studio
Whether you’re using SharePoing Designer to customize your site or other tools, you’ll benefit from this quick tutorial on how to transfer those customizations to Visual Studio so that you can share them with others. Enjoy!
SharePoint branding with SharePoint Designer – screencast
If you’re involved in a SharePoint branding project and it’s a new topic for you, you’ll love this screencast which is going to go over tons of gotchas in about an hour It was recorded recently and I`ve got some … Continue reading
Customizing SharePoint 2010 breadcrumb – few options
If you worked with SharePoint 2007 breadcrumb, you know that it`s more like a traditional breadcrumb and not like in SharePoint 2010: So, there are few ways to get the old breadcrumb. For both of the scenarios you need to … Continue reading
SharePoint Branding: switching stylesheet based on browser capabilities
When branding SharePoint site, especially for older browsers, you will often want to provide flexible user experience depending on the type of browser your site visitors are using. As you’ve seen in my branding book, extending SharePoint controls can help … Continue reading
Setting SharePoint 2010 managed site themes automatically
Few weeks ago, in my SharePoint branding screencast serries, we looked at how you can create site themes and provision them to the site. But what if you already have a site with site theme and want to apply it … Continue reading
SharePoint branding: automatically resizing backup fonts on browser capability
Here is the scenario: you’re creating a markup and styles for a SharePoint site (likely a public site). You’re not too sure what browsers are going to be accessing the site and definitely not sure which fonts those browsers are … Continue reading
SharePoint Branding: improving page editing experience for content authors
While working on the branding of your SharePoint site, you are likely to work heavily with web part zones. Usually, you can wrap web part zones in your custom DIVs to position them properly on your page. The end use … Continue reading
SharePoint Branding: retaining page content when in edit mode
When branding a SharePoint 2010 site, both Publishing and Collaboration template, you’re likely to touch masterpage and pages to apply custom look and feel. In my latest SharePoint branding book we look at many customizations and branding methods; in this … Continue reading
All the details involved in creating SharePoint 2010 site templates in Visual Studio
SharePoint site template is a core component allowing you to make deploy a set of a functionality to the site. In this screencast we’ll take a look at all the details involved in creating custom site templates in Visual Studio … Continue reading
SharePoint 2010 in the cloud: All about development and customizations
So you’ve heard about public beta announcement of Office 365. SharePoint 2010 in the cloud is one of the exciting new offerings which are part of the release. Vancouver SharePoint Usergroup is holding an event to get you up to … Continue reading