SharePoint Users with successful experience branding sites with HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), can now look forward to a new role, with, arguably, an expanded importance within their communities. The new SharePoint Development, and Office App Models are both built, in entirety, on these skills. SharePoint-Videos offers a very rich set of video […]
Encouraging Communities to Brand Content Contributes Positively to SharePoint Adoption Efforts
On the first day of SharePoint Conference 2014, MSDN’s Channel 9 Video service broadcast SPCtv A Talk with Microsoft IT on SharePoint, Adoption and Governance. The conversation was led by Karuana Gatimu and included Christian Wylde, Sean Squires, Pam Green and Carrie Doring. Squires, Green and Doring are all members of Wylde’s internal-facing “Social Collaboration […]
Any Effective End User Training Plan for SharePoint 2013 Must Address Four Broad Areas of Interaction
As Keenan Newton, a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft makes clear in a short video, “Why Apps for SharePoint 2013?” published on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site, End Users usually interact with SharePoint at four broad areas: Sites, People, Apps and Themes. Mr. Newton also explains most software is written for user engagement around […]
How to Create a Custom Theme and Look for SharePoint Server 2013 Sites
SharePoint Server 2013 ships with a redesigned “Theme” component and improved accessibility to tools to customize the look and feel of sites. Helpful pointers to using these newly redesigned features are still worth the time it takes to review theme. So organizations looking to customize the branding of SharePoint Server 2013 sites may want to […]
Modifying SharePoint 2013 Master Pages Part 2, Working with Master Pages with SharePoint Designer 2013
SharePoint Designer 2013 is the preferred method of customizing master pages for publishing sites in SharePoint 2013, on premises, or SharePoint Online, Office 365. In a video tutorial Making Changes to Master Pages, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, SharePoint MVP and published author demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer, 2013 to build a custom master page for a […]
Modifying SharePoint 2013 Master Pages Part 1
Master Pages for publishing sites in SharePoint 2013 can be modified by administrators and designers with a set of new methods. In a video tutorial, Making Changes to Master Pages, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, SharePoint MVP and published author demonstrates how to add a custom CSS to a master page template, and, thereby, create a custom master […]
A Different Set of Methods are Required to Successfully Brand SharePoint Online, 2013, Sites
The CSS architecture of SharePoint Online, 2013, is very different from the same architecture for SharePoint 2010. In an article titled Branding issues that may occur when upgrading to SharePoint 2013, Microsoft alerts organizations supported with branded SharePoint Server 2010 sites to do some extensive testing before migrating to a live SharePoint Online, 2013, platform. […]
Working with Master Pages with SharePoint Designer 2013 in SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013
It makes sense to use out of the box and custom master pages for team sites in SharePoint Onlne, Office 365, 2013. SharePoint Designer 2013 is a useful tool to customize these pages. Design and split view have been removed from the latest version, so any work will have to be done in code view. […]
Changing the Theme of a Team Site in SharePoint 2010
Changing the theme of a team site in SharePoint 2010 is easily accomplished with a few clicks by a SharePoint administrator or site collection administrator. Asif Rehmani points out that out of the box SharePoint 2010 includes 20 themes in a video tutorial titled Changing the Theme of a Site. To change the theme of […]