In a video tutorial available to the public on MSDN’s Channel 9, Microsoft presents an argument for branding SharePoint Online, Office 365 sites with themes and other CSOM methods. The title of this video tutorial is Transform SharePoint Customizations to SharePoint App Model: (02) Controlling Branding in SharePoint Using App Model. The tutorial is included […]
Exploring How SharePoint Online, Office 365 Might Impact the Future of SharePoint Branding
Correct branding is a mission critical feature of, arguably, most, if not any successful implementation of SharePoint. In turn, adding an effective brand to SharePoint components — sites, libraries, lists, even newsfeeds — supports and hastens user adoption of the computing platform. So getting a glimpse of the likely future of best of breed branding […]
Function trumps form when SharePoint stakeholders consider how best to provision technical training content to end users
Branding should be an important consideration for SharePoint functionality wherever possible. A voluminous quantity of usability research has demonstrated the comparatively greater usefulness of technical features branded to appeal to end users. But for end users in need of technical training content to help them successfully complete work in a SharePoint computing environment, it may […]
Consolidated Looks, Color Pallets, and Master Pages are Design Assets of SharePoint Online, Office 365
SharePoint Online, Office 365, like its on premises sibling, offers users an opportunity to create a custom look for branding sites. A quick way to build a custom look, as Yaroslav Pentsarskyy demonstrates in an exclusive video tutorial available on SharePoint-Videos titled Creating a custom look for SharePoint Online sites, is to edit one of […]
Building a Tool Set to Brand SharePoint Online, Office 365 Sites
SharePoint Designer 2013, a free product, is the primary branding tool for SharePoint Online, Office 365. As Yaroslav Pentsarskyy sums it up in a video tutorial titled SharePoint Online sites branding tools, “it’s essential that you have SharePoint Designer”. Another very useful tool, this time for debugging challenging issues, is a “developer toolbar” for each […]
Some Characteristics of the User Experience of Public Sites in SharePoint Online Office 365
Public sites in SharePoint Online, Office 365 are also referred to as Publishing Sites. With SharePoint Online, a public website is generated once a subscription is activated and has the the domain extension “-public.sharepoint.com” (Office 365 tenants can replace the site name with one incorporating what Microsoft refers to as a “custom domain”, meaning a […]
Learn How to Brand SharePoint Online, Office 365 Sites with a New Course from SharePoint-Videos
Office 365 is the fastest growing Microsoft product of all time. Now any organization can learn some of the most useful tools and techniques required to brand these sites via a new course from SharePoint-Videos: SP13-315 SharePoint 2013: SharePoint Online (Office 365) Branding. This course is led by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, a SharePoint MVP, published author […]
Branding SharePoint Sites Is a High Value Method of Encouraging End User Adoption of the Platform
Branding SharePoint sites to meet the unique custom requirement of a specific organization, is, arguably, the most accessible method of driving end user adoption for SharePoint stakeholders. With SharePoint 2013, its development model, and the new Office Cloud App model, the most important methods of branding sites — HTML and JavaScript — are even more […]
Build a Custom “Composed Look” for a SharePoint Online, Office 365 Team Site
SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013 has been equipped with an entirely new theming engine. Custom themes built for SharePoint Server 2010 won’t work. But the theming engine is, nevertheless, highly flexible. One method of customizing the look of an out of the box team site is to build a custom “Composed Look”, and apply it […]
Using the Gallery Feature of the Design Manager, SharePoint Online in a Windows 7 Local Environment
In the last post to this blog we introduced the Design Manager feature of SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013. In this post we will discuss some of the obstacles to using the Design Manager feature to access design components, in HTML, for automatic conversion to master pages for publishing sites in SharePoint Online. In a […]