Sharepoint 2013 Branding And User Interface Design

Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development is the definitive reference on the technologies, tools, and techniques needed for building responsive websites and applications with SharePoint 2013. The book focuses on solutions that provide the best browser experience for the myriad of devices, browsers, and screen orientations and resolutions. Web technology has changed considerably in the past few years. Microsoft has embraced the new generation of open standards represented by HTML5 and JavaScript, and these changes are represented in a fundamental shift in how SharePoint 2013 supports web content management and publishing. Authors Eric Overfield, Oscar Medina, Kanwal Khipple, and Rita Zhang join forces to dive into the new features and capabilities provided by SharePoint 2013 and combine them with the latest techniques in responsive web design and development to demonstrate how to build modern and progressive websites and applications. Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development covers the following technologies: SharePoint 2013 Server Edition Office 365 SharePoint Online Expression Blend 2013 Napa Tools for Office and SharePoint Development Visual Studio 2012 HTML5 and CSS3 JavaScript, JQuery, JQuery UI, Modernizr, and the Bootstrap Framework SharePoint 2013 Client Object Model What you’ll learnThrough the context of building a complete website on SharePoint 2013 from start to finish, readers will learn how to combine SharePoint 2013 web content management features and capabilities with modern web design and development skills. The key topics to be covered include: Design Manager – this new feature allows web designers and developers to build SharePoint branding templates using standard HTML and CSS and convert the templates to SharePoint master pages. This opens up branding to a wider audience of designers who struggled with having to understand the complexity of SharePoint and ASP.NET master pages. Client Object Model – this feature is based on web service technologies for interacting with server-side data from client-side. This feature has been extended significantly to support the new SharePoint application model, which heavily emphasizes client-side development. This book will provide full coverage of utilizing these updated web service technologies and how they can be used to build interactive websites. Device Channels – similar to the capabilities provided by HTML5 media queries, the new channels capability allows SharePoint to detect client devices and browsers to load the appropriate master page to provide a unique browser experience. Variations and Translation Services – SharePoint 2013 continues to improve features and capabilities for building multi-lingual sites including new support for integration with professional translation service providers, or automated translation web services. Term Set Navigation and SEO Improvements – SharePoint 2013 now provides native support for Search Engine Optimization requirements such as page meta fields, as well as a completely new approach to site navigation and human friendly URLs through the use of Managed Metadata navigation. Who this book is for Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development is designed for web designers and developers who have existing knowledge of basic website design and development, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book builds upon that foundational knowledge to walk the reader through a complete project lifecycle for building a responsive website on SharePoint 2013. Table of Contents What’s New in SharePoint 2013 Web Content Management Responsive Web Design and Development with HTML5 Gather Requirements and Wire frame for the Site Building a SharePoint HTML Master Page Using Device Channels to customize ClientUX Design Site Structure and Navigation with Managed Metadata Publish Cross-Site Content with Catalogs Design and Develop Page Layouts and Content Types Integrate Search-Driven Content Build Rich Interactive Forms Upload Documents and Files Integrate Location-Based Features Integrating Feeds and Social Media Supporting Multilingual Sites Appendix A: Setting up your Design and Development Environment

Plan, design, and launch a brand in SharePoint If you are planning, designing, and launching your brand using SharePoint, this book and author trio will walk you through everything you need to know in an understandable and approachable way. From specific technologies such as master pages, page layouts, and CSS to offering best-practices and real-world experience for creating successful branding projects through SharePoint 2013, you will learn how to approach your branding project in effective new ways. This visual book provides step-by-step instructions in a simple and striking format that focuses on each of the tasks you will face in your own branding project.Explains the various approaches to SharePoint branding and methodologies for creating an engaging UI.Guides you through planning for branding and using the Design Manager to start a design.Addresses implementing modern web techniques such as HT ML5, jQuery, and mobile responsive design into SharePoint.Explores creating SharePoint branding for public facing websites as well as internal intranets, including a deep dive into how custom SharePoint branding is created from scratch. Provides coverage on designing apps for SharePoint.

The SharePoint 2013 Branding and UI Design and SharePoint-videos.com Bundle represents a unique collaboration between SharePoint content leaders. The bundle features the best-selling Wrox book SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design (978-1118495674) - now in full color -- and several complementary branding and design videos from the renowned SharePoint-videos.com. All based on SharePoint 2013, the book and videos bring readers of all experience levels, including traditional web designers, into the world of creating beautiful and engaging SharePoint sites. Keeping with the theme of good design, the book itself was designed to be visually appealing, featuring vivid full color content laid out in a unique and engaging fashion. The package includes: Site level branding for Team Sites Publishing page customizations Site level branding for publishing sites Tools and options for SharePoint 2013 Branding Modifying Master pages Creating Publishing page layouts Adding javascript interactions to sites Adding complex interactions to sites Packaging branding as a SharePoint App About SharePoint-videos.com SharePoint-Videos.com (SPVideos) is focused on empowering information workers in corporate environments with the SharePoint knowledge they need to be successful. Their goal is ensuring sustainable SharePoint adoption through education and support. SPVideos provides the following business solutions: Asif Rehmani has been training and consulting on SharePoint technologies since 2002. He is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT. He has written SharePoint curricula, several books for Wrox, and dozens of SharePoint articles. He has produced hundreds of video tutorials on SharePoint, many available at Microsoft TechNet, MSDN, Channel 9, Office.com, YouTube and SharePoint-Videos.com. Asif has presented at conferences globally including Microsoft's TechEd, SharePoint Conference, SPTechCon, and SharePoint Connections. His clients include Caltech, Fidelity.com, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Lockheed Martin, Symantec, Autodesk, and Raytheon

A must have guide for creating engaging and usable SharePoint 2010 branding With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a more robust environment for creating collaboration and content management sites that rival any of the popular websites on the internet. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. This book bridges that gap by not only providing expert guidance for creating beautiful public facing and internal intranet sites but it also addresses the needs of those readers that only want to understand the basics enough to apply some style to their sites. Things like creative 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. Whether you want to make SharePoint look completely different or just make minor design changes, this expert guide will provide tips, techniques, and insights to get the job done.

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A must have guide for creating engaging and usable SharePoint 2010 branding With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a more robust environment for creating collaboration and content management sites that rival any of the popular websites on the internet. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. This book bridges that gap by not only providing expert guidance for creating beautiful public facing and internal intranet sites but it also addresses the needs of those readers that only want to understand the basics enough to apply some style to their sites. Things like creative 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. The book is divided into four sections: Introduction to SharePoint Branding: In this part you will learn about what SharePoint branding is and how the topic has changed since SharePoint 2007. Branding Basics: This section is geared towards both getting started as well as being a guide for people that don't want to dive super deep into the advanced topics of SharePoint branding. You will learn about how to plan for branding projects, including creating wireframes and creative mockups as well as gathering requirements and estimation. You will learn how to work with SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint 2010 themes, and SharePoint navigation as well as gain an understanding of the low and medium effort approaches to branding can be used to make SharePoint look more like your own visual style. Advanced Branding: This is where you will learn about the more intricate techniques for making large changes to the SharePoint UI, such as cascading style sheets (CSS), master pages, page layouts, web parts and XSLT. You will also get an introduction to deploying SharePoint branding to production servers using solution packages (WSP). Other Topics: Everything else that is related to SharePoint branding is discussed here, including working with the SharePoint 2010 ribbon and client side technologies such as the client object model, jQuery, and Silverlight. Whether you want to make SharePoint look completely different or just make minor design changes, this expert guide will provide tips, techniques, and insights to get the job done.

A must have guide for creating engaging and usable SharePoint 2010 branding With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a more robust environment for creating collaboration and content management sites that rival any of the popular websites on the internet. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. This book bridges that gap by not only providing expert guidance for creating beautiful public facing and internal intranet sites but it also addresses the needs of those readers that only want to understand the basics enough to apply some style to their sites. Things like creative 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. Whether you want to make SharePoint look completely different or just make minor design changes, this expert guide will provide tips, techniques, and insights to get the job done.

SharePoint admin author gurus return to prepare you for working with the new features of SharePoint 2013! The new iteration of SharePoint boasts exciting new features. However, any new version also comes with its fair share of challenges and that's where this book comes in. The team of SharePoint admin gurus returns to presents a fully updated resource that prepares you for making all the new SharePoint 2013 features work right. They cover all of the administration components of SharePoint 2013 in detail, and present a clear understanding of how they affect the role of the administrator. Compares and contrasts SharePoint 2013 to earlier versions Helps make your SharePoint 2013 installation smooth and successful Addresses managing customizations Looks at SharePoint 2013 for Internet sites Includes an introduction to SQL Server 2012 Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration enhances your SharePoint skill set and immerses you in the new content of the platform.

Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration eBook And SharePoint-videos.com Bundle