Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design

SharePoint 2010 allows for more robust and easier branding than before, but that just makes covering all the bases more crucial than ever. Things like site design, the experience visitors have navigating your user interface, ease of use—these are all important branding considerations and not always intuitive. This unique book from a team of SharePoint branding experts lays it all out.

How do you estimate costs? Mockup and test your branding? Use SharePoint Designer 2010? These and other topics such as CSS, page layouts, themes, XSLT, Silverlight, and jQuery are thoroughly explored.

• Explains how to create and implement successful user interfaces and branding for SharePoint Server sites
• Delves into planning, estimating, and implementation—and offers simple techniques for beginners to quickly create branded sites
• Covers CSS, master pages, page layouts, SharePoint themes, XSLT, jQuery, and Silverlight
• Provides expert tips, techniques, and insights from the author team of SharePoint 2010 branding experts

Create advanced branding for your SharePoint site with this expert guide.

SharePoint 2010 allows for much more robust branding opportunities and this hands-on resource shares proven techniques for branding and user interface design so that you can execute a successful branding initiative with SharePoint 2010. After a review of branding and how it relates to SharePoint, the book addresses what's new in SharePoint 2010, including CSS, page layouts, themes, XSLT, Silverlight, and jQuery. You'll explore ways to plan, estimate, and create a brand in SharePoint while you also discover how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 with a SharePoint server.

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Provides informaition on branding and how it relates to SharePoint along with information on such topics as CSS, page layouts, themes, XSLT, and JQuery.