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Branding Impossible: What to know when branding SharePoint! Thor & Odin Castillo Houston, Texas 0 Welcome to SharePoint Saturday Houston Thank you for being a part of the 5th Annual SharePoint Saturday for the greater Houston area! • 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 1 Thanks to all our Sponsors! 2 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 3 Warm Up Who branded? How branded? When branded? What branded? 4 Clients SharePoint Mixed Bag • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Microsoft Houston Methodist Exxon Apache Kraton Polymers Treasure Island Jet Aviation Baxter Pharma PRIDCO (Puerto Rico) 5 Fidelity Nationwide Air Force Pfizer ST Microelectronics Chase GlaxoSmithKline United Airlines WinWholesale What is SharePoint? Where is Branding? 6 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… 7 SharePoint is Made of Web • SharePoint is still made of: – Web Servers – Web Sites – HTML, JavaScript & CSS – Pages & Layouts 8 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 9 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 10 Why Brand? • • • • Why not? … Scope & Scale Make the user experience unique Make the site more useful (Usability) Create consistency (across an enterprise) 11 What’s Possible Simple Improvements • • • • Complete Redesign 12 Enable Breadcrumb Feature Before After 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. 13 Web Part Chrome Before After 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 Web Part Active Chrome Before After 15 Doc Library Web Part Breadcrumb Nav. Before After 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 16 Example Page Before Enhancements Before After 17 Example Page after Enhancements Before After 18 What’s Possible Simple Improvements • • • • Complete Redesign 19 You too can brand (How Brand?) What to brand? How to brand? • • • • • • • • • • • • Elements on the page Page Site Collection of Sites Enterprise Beyond 26 Modify the settings <Embed Code/> CSS Override & Themes Master Page & Layouts Solutions Frameworks Things to Consider SharePoint Boondoggle Overlooked • • • • • • Enable Anonymous • Manage Navigation • Manage Site Content and Structure • Language Variations • Users, Groups, Policies Risk of changing the UI Custom Code Void the Warranty Cross-Browser Device Friendly 27 Is Branding Impossible? • Not Really • There are varying degrees: Simple to Complex • There are a lot of great resources – Books – Blogs – Agencies 28 Please Leave Feedback During Q&A Speakers: If you want to get feedback on your talk, put the shortened link and the QR code on this page. Instructions on how to get your link and QR code are at: bit.ly/spshou2015decktemplate Also, please upload your completed deck to our Onedrive folder: bit.ly/spshou2015deckuploads 29