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Sharpen your branding skills with this must-have resource
SharePoint 2010 allows for much more robust branding opportunities and this hands-on resource shares proven techniques for branding and user interface design so that you can execute a successful branding initiative with SharePoint 2010. After a review of branding and how it relates to SharePoint, the book addresses what's new in SharePoint 2010, including CSS, page layouts, themes, XSLT, Silverlight, and jQuery. You'll explore ways to plan, estimate, and create a brand in SharePoint while you also discover how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 with a SharePoint server.
Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design:
Presents strategies for migrating to SharePoint 2010 from an earlier version
Walks you through the steps necessary to properly plan for branding
Delves into working with navigation in SharePoint Server 2010
Explores the role of CSS in SharePoint branding
Examines master pages, page layouts, and custom content for custom pages
Addresses the Client Object Model and jQuery
Looks at XML, Data View, and Content Query Web Parts
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The details, steps, and considerations you need to know when deploying a SharePoint site
The new features of SharePoint 2010 make branding easier for the most beginner user while simultaneously allowing for more robust branding for advanced users. Focusing on the end goal of a successful branding initiative with SharePoint, this valuable resource covers the gamut of planning requirements, details to consider, steps that must be taken, and considerations to take into account that are essential when deploying and branding your SharePoint site.
You'll begin with basic topics that cover what branding is and how it relates to SharePoint. With each successive chapter, you'll gradually progress to the challenges you will face when planning a SharePoint branding initiative and you'll learn how to handle any obstacles that you may face. Begins with the basics of branding and how it relates to SharePoint Examines the new features of SharePoint 2010 and how they can be used to create an attractive SharePoint site Walks you through successfully planning, estimating, and creating mockup branding for SharePoint Demonstrates using SharePoint Designer 2010 with a SharePoint server Shares simple techniques that you can use to quickly create a branded user interface in SharePoint
In addition, you'll also discover how technologies such as jQuery and Silverlight can be used with SharePoint so that you can successfully brand a SharePoint site.
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Expert advice on deploying and branding SharePoint sites
SharePoint 2010 allows for more robust and easier branding than before, but that just makes covering all the bases more crucial than ever. Things like site design, the experience visitors have navigating your user interface, ease of use--these are all important branding considerations and not always intuitive. This unique book from a team of SharePoint branding experts lays it all out.
How do you estimate costs? Mockup and test your branding? Use SharePoint Designer 2010? These and other topics such as CSS, page layouts, themes, XSLT, Silverlight, and jQuery are thoroughly explored. Explains how to create and implement successful user interfaces and branding for SharePoint Server sites Delves into planning, estimating, and implementation--and offers simple techniques for beginners to quickly create branded sites Covers CSS, master pages, page layouts, SharePoint themes, XSLT, jQuery, and Silverlight Provides expert tips, techniques, and insights from the author team of SharePoint 2010 branding experts
Create advanced branding for your SharePoint site with this expert guide.
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A must have guide for creating engaging and usable SharePoint 2010 brandingWith SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a more robust environment for creating collaboration and content management sites that rival any of the popular websites on the internet. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. This book bridges that gap by not only providing expert guidance for creating beautiful public facing and internal intranet sites but it also addresses the needs of those readers that only want to understand the basics enough to apply some style to their sites.
Things like creative design, the experience visitors have navigating your user interface, ease of use—these are all important branding considerations and not always intuitive. This unique book from a team of SharePoint branding experts lays it all out.
Whether you want to make SharePoint look completely different or just make minor design changes, this expert guide will provide tips, techniques, and insights to get the job done.
About the Author
Randy Drisgill is a consultant with SharePoint911. He is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server and the coauthor of Professional SharePoint 2007 Design.
John Ross is a consultant with SharePoint911.?He?is an active member of the SharePoint community and a frequent guest speaker.
Jacob J. Sanford is a senior consultant for Cornerstone Software Services.
Paul Stubbs works at Microsoft and is a frequent speaker at Tech Ed and Dev Connections events about branding and SharePoint.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Introduction.
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO SAHREPOINT BRANDING.
Chapter 1: What Is SharePoint Branding?
Chapter 2: What's New in SharePoint 2010.
PART II: BRANDING BASICS.
Chapter3: Planning for Branding.
Chapter 4: SharePoint Designer 2010 Overview.
Chapter 5: Simple Branding.
Chapter 6: Working with Navigation.
PART III: ADVANCED BRANDING.
Chapter 7: Cascading Style Sheets in SharePoint.
Chapter 8: Master Pages.
Chapter 9: Page Layouts.
Chapter 10: Web Parts and XSLT.
Chapter 11: Deploying Branding in SharePoint.
PART IV: OTHER BRANDING CONCEPTS.
Chapter 12: Page Editing and the Ribbon.
Chapter 13: The Client Object Model and jQuery.
Chapter 14: Silverlight and SharePoint Integration.
INDEX.