Nov
08
Over the last week I have been following a conversation on twitter started by Kerri Abraham about the value of branding your SharePoint site internally. We have completed many SharePoint branding exercises and generally speaking all of our clients like the consistent feel of their brand carried through from the website onto the internal SharePoint …
Oct
03
My first live blog from #SPC11 with Randy Drisgill & John Ross talking about building beautiful and engaging websites with SharePoint 2010. Also testing blogging from an iPad for the first time so hopefully basic formatting can be excused.. A nice anecdote about the history of branding from John.. Branding started with actual cowboys branding …
Jul
15
Well it’s been a long time coming but here’s the final post for this series until I get everything back up to speed. Keep an eye out for the next series which will be more in depth and complete. So in the last post we looked at getting the header in to the design and …
Jan
28
Hello and welcome to part three of the SharePoint Branding series. In part two of the series we added Randy Drisgil’s starter master page, attached a CSS file that we can use to add our own styles and now we are ready to go ahead and start building our design. Now there are many ways …
Aug
23
It’s hard to explain what I mean in words so here is a picture: See how the icons do not sit right next to the title of the item and you are left with masses of white space. This bug only seams to appear in IE8 and in firefox it works just fine. The picture …
Jul
14
Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the Learning Gateway Conference on the topic of branding SharePoint I’m going to write a few blog posts going into more detail but for now I just wanted to get the slide deck up. Lg conf branding View more presentations from crmckinley. Technorati Tags: branding, CSS, LGCUK10, …
Jun
30
At Twynham we always find the best way to start a new SharePoint project is to get it drawn out, preferably by the end user. This can come back to us in many forms from a pencil and paper sketch through to a fully blown Visio diagram. I stumbled across this video that shows off …
Jun
15
Yesterday I gave a presentation about branding at the SharePoint Education event organised by Mike Herrity at Microsoft Reading. It’s the same presentation I gave at the last event, this time going solo without Matt. The slides from this 1st presentation are here. I’ve had quite a few request for links to resources etc so …
May
14
Myself and Matt Hughes from Samworth Acadamy had the pleasure in presenting to a group of teachers and techies about branding SharePoint. Slides are below, we deviated quite alot during the presentation but you should get the gist! Any questions im @crmckinley and Matt is @mattmoo2 Branding View more presentations from crmckinley. Technorati Tags: branding, …
