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Welcome to SharePoint Saturday Houston
• Please turn off all electronic devices or set them to vibrate• If you must take a phone call, please do so in the hall so as not
to disturb others• Special thanks to our Title Sponsor, ProSymmetry
Thank you for being a part of the 5th Annual SharePoint Saturday
for the greater Houston area!
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Information• Speaker presentation slides should be available
from the SPSHOU website within a week or so
• The Houston SharePoint User Group will be having it’s next meeting Wednesday April 15th. Please join us at www.h-spug.org
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SharePoint
• Microsoft• Houston Methodist• Exxon• Apache• Kraton Polymers• Treasure Island• Jet Aviation• Baxter Pharma• PRIDCO (Puerto Rico)
Mixed Bag
• Fidelity • Nationwide• Air Force• Pfizer• ST Microelectronics• Chase• GlaxoSmithKline• United Airlines• WinWholesale
Clients
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Why Does SharePoint not Brand?• It’s an Office Application– Let’s look at Word!
• It’s about supporting the creation of information• It’s about supporting processes– Automating Services– Back Office Integration
• It really wasn’t built with “.com” public-facing websites in mind
• But…
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SharePoint is Made of Web• SharePoint is still made of:– Web Servers– Web Sites– HTML, JavaScript & CSS– Pages & Layouts
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Is Branding Impossible? Maybe!• Simply, branding is designing a web site using
SharePoint… but this can be quite complicated and cumbersome
• Must deeply understand how to design for SharePoint’s template and theming model
• Work within its design limitations and capabilities
• Must design for the content contribution and site management processes
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Talking Points“Branding Impossible: What to know when
branding SharePoint!”• Why Brand?• What’s Possible? (What Brand?)• You too can brand (How Brand?)• Things to Consider
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Why Brand?• Why not? … Scope & Scale• Make the user experience unique• Make the site more useful (Usability)• Create consistency (across an enterprise)
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Before After
Enable Breadcrumb Feature
SharePoint 2010 had this breadcrumb feature built in and it disappeared from the core template. This is a practical feature for sites with subsite and sub-subsites and can be re-added reliably to the site template.
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Before After
Web Part Chrome
SharePoint 2010 had this breadcrumb feature built in and it disappeared from the core template. This is a practical feature for sites with subsite and sub-subsites and can be re-added reliably to the site template.
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Before After
Doc Library Web Part Breadcrumb Nav.
The Doc Lib Web Part breadcrumb helps users identify where they are within a web parts as they navigate in and can effectively navigate back up the tree
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What to brand?
• Elements on the page• Page• Site• Collection of Sites• Enterprise• Beyond
How to brand?
• Modify the settings• <Embed Code/>• CSS Override & Themes• Master Page & Layouts• Solutions• Frameworks
You too can brand (How Brand?)
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SharePoint Boondoggle
• Risk of changing the UI• Custom Code• Void the Warranty• Cross-Browser• Device Friendly
Overlooked
• Enable Anonymous• Manage Navigation• Manage Site Content
and Structure• Language Variations• Users, Groups, Policies
Things to Consider
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Is Branding Impossible?• Not Really• There are varying degrees: Simple to Complex• There are a lot of great resources– Books– Blogs– Agencies
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