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Developing Branding Solutions for 2013
Thomas Daly,
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About Me SharePoint Consultant @ B&R Business Solutions
Developer Branding Focused on the UI side of things Community Involvement Speaker NJ SP Princeton User Group SharePoint Saturday NYC organizer NothingButSharePoint.com – Helper / Contributor My SharePoint Blog MSDN forums
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Topics we’ll cover Creating Branding Based Project in Visual Studio 2012 Deploying Assets Themes CSS, Images & JavaScript Master Pages Composed Looks Additional Page Head CSSRegistration, ScriptLink, Cache Busting Feature Receivers
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Where are we starting from?
Master Page CSS Theme Palette Images Web Fonts
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Development Environment
SharePoint Server 2013 Visual Studio 2012 Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 Quick Deploy [Mavention] CSS Plugin?
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Considerations Where will you deploy files?
Will it be a Sandbox or Farm level solution? Will it be SPSite or SPWeb based scoping? Will you be auto applying master pages, themes or composed looks? Will you be pushing branding down to subsites? Will you need any additional scripts to programmatically apply / unapply?
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Building Simple Project
Mapped Images Folder Feature Image Mapped Layouts Folder CSS Files Images JS Files Modules Master Pages
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Deploying a Composed Look
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What do we need in a Composed Look?
Master Page Theme Palette Background Image [optional] Font Scheme [optional]
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Building the Project Modules Layouts Elements Theme [Definition]
Fonts [Definition] Layouts Web Fonts Background Image Elements Composed Look [Definition]
![Building the Project Modules Layouts Elements Theme [Definition]](http://slideplayer.com./slide/14111070/86/images/10/Building+the+Project+Modules+Layouts+Elements+Theme+%5BDefinition%5D.jpg "Fonts [Definition] Layouts. Web Fonts. Background Image. Elements. Composed Look [Definition]")
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Alternative Branding Technique
No Custom Master Page Attach Custom Style Sheets or Scripts Additional Page Head
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Additional Page Head Additional Page Head – a delegate control located in the <HEAD> of SharePoint master pages. Can be used to load multiple controls via code without touching the master page directly.
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User Control & Element Feature Element User Control
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Sandbox Solution Alternative
Like a trick, ScriptLink is used to link JS files CustomAction <CustomAction Id="SiteCSS" Location="ScriptLink" ScriptBlock="document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_layouts/15/SharePointProject1/myStyles.css"></' + 'link>');" Sequence="203" />
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Building the Project User Control Element Pointer to User Control
Sandbox ScriptLink
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Feature Application of Branding
Feature Receiver Site Icon Master Page Composed Look
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Auto Brand New Sites By default, (Non-Publishing) SharePoint does not trickle down applied themes, master page & css By creating Web Provisioned Event Handler we can make the new children sites have the same branding as their parent. Common things to set are: Master Page Url Custom Master Page Url Site Logo Parent Navigation Theme / Composed Look Use Synchronous Property
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Optimization Techniques
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Consideration for CSS & JavaScript
CSS Files Use CSSRegistraiton JavaScript Files Use ScriptLink Top Reasons SharePoint Ensures Loading Once Can specify what to load after Uses SharePoint built-in cache busting
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Cache Busting Calculated MD5 hash of the file contents
Will ensure a fresh copy will be delivered Auto-gen hash each time file is modified File must be relative to the layouts [CSS] _layouts/1033/styles/<MyFolder>/<MyFile.css> [JS] _layouts/<MyFolder>/<MyFile.js>
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Questions or Comments? Contact information Thomas M Daly Company – Blog – Twitter - _TomDaly_ [work] [personal] LinkedIn
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