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Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization
With Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization, SharePoint branding expert Erik Swenson cuts through the fluff and discusses accessible, easy-to-understand consulting and processes to create aesthetically pleasing, highly usable branded and customized SharePoint websites, both internally and externally. Designed to be a quick reference, how-to guide that lets you dive straight into the task at hand, you'll find this book's attention to detail and pragmatism make it an attractive companion during your branding experience.
SharePoint 2010 deployments are more common than ever, as is the desire to make the environment branded and attractive to both internal and external clients. However, since SharePoint is more than just a collection of web pages, customizing the look and feel and completing the process of branding the platform itself is complex and requires a knowledge of web development, web design techniques, and a familiarity with SharePoint administration—a curious niche, to be sure. And sometimes, you just need to make quick fixes, while at other times, building an entirely customized and branded environment is a multi-step process with lots of stakeholder buy-in and development time required.
Whether you’re interested in applying just a touch of style to a team site, or you’re branding a public-facing Fortune 500 website based on SharePoint, Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization is the only book you'll need to quickly, easily, and efficiently brand and customize your environment.
SharePoint 2010 deployments are more common than ever, as is the desire to make the environment branded and attractive to both internal and external clients. However, since SharePoint is more than just a collection of web pages, customizing the look and feel and completing the process of branding the platform itself is complex and requires a knowledge of web development, web design techniques, and a familiarity with SharePoint administration—a curious niche, to be sure. And sometimes, you just need to make quick fixes, while at other times, building an entirely customized and branded environment is a multi-step process with lots of stakeholder buy-in and development time required.
Whether you’re interested in applying just a touch of style to a team site, or you’re branding a public-facing Fortune 500 website based on SharePoint, Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization is the only book you'll need to quickly, easily, and efficiently brand and customize your environment.
368 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2011
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July 29, 2012
This book contains plenty of very hand information about branding in SharePoint. It also has plenty of information that can be used as a reference source. It is easy to read and should make sense to anyone who has worked with SharePoint.
I would have liked to have seen more practical examples of actually building completed projects. There are plenty of one off examples in the book that are very handy but it would have been nice perhaps to start with a single branding project and develop that throughout the book. However, I do understand that this maybe not what everyone wants from a book like this.
This books is certainly one that is worth adding to your SharePoint reference library and will be a valuable resource that you can refer to again and agin. That said, I think that most will find that need additional resources to really get the hang of SharePoint customisation. This is not the fault of the author it is simply that SharePoint is such a huge product with so many options to work with.
Personally, I would have liked to have seen more development around a single project so that it could tied together however this doesn't detract from an excellent book that is a worthwhile read for anyone looking at doing SharePoint customisation.
I would have liked to have seen more practical examples of actually building completed projects. There are plenty of one off examples in the book that are very handy but it would have been nice perhaps to start with a single branding project and develop that throughout the book. However, I do understand that this maybe not what everyone wants from a book like this.
This books is certainly one that is worth adding to your SharePoint reference library and will be a valuable resource that you can refer to again and agin. That said, I think that most will find that need additional resources to really get the hang of SharePoint customisation. This is not the fault of the author it is simply that SharePoint is such a huge product with so many options to work with.
Personally, I would have liked to have seen more development around a single project so that it could tied together however this doesn't detract from an excellent book that is a worthwhile read for anyone looking at doing SharePoint customisation.
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