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With 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. The book is divided into four sections:
- Introduction to SharePoint Branding: In this part you will learn about what SharePoint branding is and how the topic has changed since SharePoint 2007.
- Branding Basics: This section is geared towards both getting started as well as being a guide for people that don’t want to dive super deep into the advanced topics of SharePoint branding. You will learn about how to plan for branding projects, including creating wireframes and creative mockups as well as gathering requirements and estimation. You will learn how to work with SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint 2010 themes, and SharePoint navigation as well as gain an understanding of the low and medium effort approaches to branding can be used to make SharePoint look more like your own visual style.
- Advanced Branding: This is where you will learn about the more intricate techniques for making large changes to the SharePoint UI, such as cascading style sheets (CSS), master pages, page layouts, web parts and XSLT. You will also get an introduction to deploying SharePoint branding to production servers using solution packages (WSP).
- Other Topics: Everything else that is related to SharePoint branding is discussed here, including working with the SharePoint 2010 ribbon and client side technologies such as the client object model, jQuery, and Silverlight.
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.
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars
A great reference for any skill level,
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This review is from: Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
Firstly, I'd like to disagree with the reviewer who rated this book one-star, stating it didn't do what it says on the proverbial tin. This book does indeed cover everything it states it will, that is why there is a list of contents. Anyone "hoping" for things would be advised to check it out before purchase, that way you can avoid being disappointed. After all, would you buy a pair of shoes without checking they're your size?
I recently rebranded a publishing site for the first time ever for a demonstration at my place of work and, on the strength of it, the decision makers are now looking into using SharePoint 2010 for managing our intranet, as they were blown away by what it can be made to look like. I used this book to accomplish that, as well as the blogs of the authors, so that should be testament enough that it does indeed do what is needed in order to get someone of any skill level up and running with branding a SharePoint 2010 Site.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the better SharePoint 2010 books,
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This review is from: Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
Given the niche scope of the book, I'm guessing my rationale for purchasing is the same as everyone else's - so I can confirm that if you are looking for ways to make SharePoint 2010 look the way you want, then this book meets that requirement almost perfectly.
It does not tell you how to design things, for this you will need a designer (although it does stress this point when it suggests that before you start developing a website you should do a Photoshop mockup). However it gives clear guidance on how to plan the design and taxonomy process, following on with step-by-step instructions on how to customise the default SharePoint pages to make it look the way you want. The downloadable code includes an example site that makes for an excellent reference point. It also includes little tidbits and snippets of useful information about how to configure the stranger default settings in SharePoint (e.g. mobile site redirection). It isn't a development book and only alludes to coding issues where they are appropriate to UX (e.g. using jQuery in the client object model), but it doesn't claim to be a development book. It's possibly the most comprehensive guide to SharePoint Designer 2010 I've seen to date, which alone makes it worth the price. My only criticism (which is more my problem than the book's) is that it doesn't explain what the weird and wonderful tags in SharePoint .aspx pages are (although it does tell you which ones should be left alone). However it would be nice to know where else to find that information (as search engines don't yield much). Otherwise it does an excellent job of (in its own words) "telling you how to make SharePoint not look like SharePoint".
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good reference book,
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This review is from: Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
As a developer, I bought this book to try and understand the branding side of SharePoint a little more. I found this book to be an interesting read and I like the way that the branding steps built on each other... I think this is a useful reference book, and I would certainly recommend it.
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