0 Branding Impossible: What to know when branding SharePoint! Thor & Odin Castillo Houston, Texas

1 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 5 th Annual SharePoint Saturday for the greater Houston area!

2 Thanks to all our Sponsors!

3 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 15 th. Please join us at

4 Warm Up Who branded? How branded? When branded? What branded?

5 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

6 What is SharePoint? Where is Branding?

7 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…

8 SharePoint is Made of Web SharePoint is still made of: – Web Servers – Web Sites – HTML, JavaScript & CSS – Pages & Layouts

9 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

10 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

11 Why Brand? Why not? … Scope & Scale Make the user experience unique Make the site more useful (Usability) Create consistency (across an enterprise)

12 What’s Possible Simple Improvements Complete Redesign

13 BeforeAfter 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.

14 BeforeAfter 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.

15 BeforeAfter Web Part Active Chrome

16 BeforeAfter 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

17 BeforeAfter Example Page Before Enhancements

18 BeforeAfter Example Page after Enhancements

19 What’s Possible Simple Improvements Complete Redesign

26 What to brand? Elements on the page Page Site Collection of Sites Enterprise Beyond How to brand? Modify the settings CSS Override & Themes Master Page & Layouts Solutions Frameworks You too can brand (How Brand?)

27 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

28 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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