SharePoint Designer 2010: Branding SharePoint Sites

Edit and customize web sites created with the SharePoint 2010 platform.

Learn how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to alter the default appearance of SharePoint web sites. Author Simon Allardice covers simple tasks from creating themes and making basic CSS changes, to fully restyling a site with master pages and page layout templates. He also shows how to aid usability and adoption by providing improved navigation and individual page layouts for site-specific content.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Server requirements

1. Getting Started

• Exploring the SharePoint product line
• Understanding the Publishing feature
• Using SharePoint and SharePoint Designer
• Understanding the different levels of site customization

2. Working with SharePoint

• Exploring a basic site
• Understanding lists and libraries
• Creating a new site
• Creating new pages

3. Browser-Based Customization

• Customizing wiki pages
• Customizing web part pages
• Using built-in themes

4. Permissions

• Introducing permissions
• Discovering what permissions you have
• Getting upgraded permissions

5. Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010

• Exploring the interface
• Making new pages
• Using the Code and Design views
• Using the Normal and Advanced editing modes

6. CSS

• Working with CSS
• Exploring the core.css file
• Detecting what CSS styles are being applied
• Creating inline and embedded CSS styles
• Creating custom CSS files

7. Customizing Foundation Sites

• Introducing master pages
• Understanding the placeholders in master pages
• Creating a copy of the default master page
• Restoring the default master page
• Creating new pages based on master pages
• Using starter master pages
• Linking to a custom CSS file in a Foundation site

8. Customizing Sites Using the Publishing Feature

• Introducing master pages in Publishing sites
• Exploring the Master Page Gallery
• Switching master pages
• Customizing an existing master page
• Designing a new master page
• Linking to custom CSS files in Publishing sites

9. Using Page Layouts

• Introducing page layouts and content types
• Creating a custom content type
• Creating a page layout based on a content type
• Editing a page layout
• Creating multiple versions of a page layout
• Creating new pages based on page layouts

10. Customizing Publishing Sites

• What is the Publishing Portal?
• Growing portal sites
• What is an Enterprise Wiki?
• Security concerns for internet-facing sites

11. Creating Themes

• Custom themes in Foundation sites
• Custom themes in Publishing sites

12. Customizing Navigation

• Default navigation
• Customizing the Quick Launch and Top Link bars
• Editing navigation in sites with Publishing enabled
• Customizing the navigation controls in master pages

Conclusion

• Goodbye