The document summarizes a SharePoint community meeting in Philadelphia. It provides details on the meeting format, including sessions for end users, administrators, developers and IT pros. Meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 8:30 PM at the Microsoft Malvern office. The website for the group is listed as www.TriStateSharePoint.org. Sponsors of the event are also acknowledged.

1. SharePoint Community in Philadelphia
• Sessions for: Meeting Format
5:30-6:30 Power User Session
• End Users 6:30-7:00 – News/Q&A/Networking/Food/Sponsors
• Administrators 7:00-7:30 – Open Design – “Problem of the Month”
7:30-8:30 - Developer or Administrator Session
• Developers
• IT Pros
• Meetings: Second Tuesday of the month, 5:30 to 8:30 PM, Microsoft
Malvern office
• Hands-On Labs: Administrators and Power Users, see website for details
WEB: www.TriStateSharePoint.org (under construction)
CONTACT: info@tristatesharepoint.org
TWITTER: @tristateSP

2. Platinum
Gold
SWAG
Event
Organizers
Thanks to our Sponsors!

3. Presented by Thomas Daly
tdaly@bandrsolutions.com

4. Who am I?
 A SharePoint Developer who specializes in
implementing designs and creating web components
to enhance the user interface and user experience.

5. Outline
 What’s New in 2010
 Tools & Supported Browsers
 Approaches to Branding
 Master Pages
 Themes
 Demo
 Deployment Options

6. What’s New – Changes
 Table < Div
 Dialog Boxes & Ribbon
 Better & More cross browser support
 Office Theme Engine
 Tie custom CSS into theme engine

7. Tools & Supported Browsers
 Tools
 IE Dev Toolbar (embedded in IE8)
 Firebug / Firebug Lite
 SharePoint Designer 2010
 ColorPic
 Multiple Versions
 IE
 Firefox
 Supported Browsers
 Internet Explorer 7 & 8
 Mozilla Firefox 3.6
 Safari 4.04

8. Other Browsers & Tools
 Firebug Lite - Compatible
with all major browsers: IE6+,
Firefox, Opera, Safari and
Chrome;
 Chrome
 Built in developer tool bar
 Opera
 Dragonfly

9. Approaches to Branding
 Theme – covers the overall color scheme of the site.
 Custom CSS – can change change, fonts, colors and
some structure.
 Master Page & Custom CSS – complete control over
look and feel.

10. Master Pages
 Starter Master Pages – new term for Minimal Master
Pages
 http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com/
 Includes 3 master pages: regular, foundations, meeting
workspaces
 Provides clean starting point for branding
 Well documented for easy understanding
 V3 Master Page Support

11. Classes
 s4-notdlg - prevent from showing in dialog window
 Team Site Home Page Elements and CSS Classes -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms438349.aspx

12. Ribbon
 Customizing the Ribbon Position
 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/04/06/customizing-ribbon-positioning-in-sharepoint-2010-master-
pages.aspx
 Security Trim Ribbon
 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zwsong/archive/2010/04/29/how-to-hide-ribbon-from-users-without-edit-page-privilege.aspx

13. Themes
 Set of graphics and cascading
style sheets that control the
look of your site.
 Uses Office themes (.THMX)
 12 colors, 2 fonts

14. Themes
 3 Approaches to
creating/updating the
theme
 Existing theme can be
modified in UI (Publishing
Features)
 New theme can be created
in PowerPoint and
imported
 Microsoft Theme Builder
Tool
http://connect.microsoft.com/themebuilder

15. Theme Engine
 Attach Custom CSS – EnableCssTheming
 Enable custom CSS to see themes - /Style Library/en-us/Themable
 Capabilities – ref
 Replace colors, Replace fonts
 Recolor images - Blending, Tinting, Fill

16. Upgrading Branding
 Master Page
 MSDN Article - Upgrading an Existing Master Page to
the SharePoint Foundation Master Page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee539981.aspx

17. Deployment Options
 Theme
 Upload & Activate through UI
 Alternate CSS
 Upload & Set through UI
 Master Page / CSS
 Upload & Apply through UI
 Feature Deployment

18. Demo
 Theme
 Create through PowerPoint, Import
 Update through UI
 Theme Tool
 Show V3 Master Page Support
 OOTB v3.master
 Heather base master page
 Show Starter Master
 Apply Blank Master Page
 Apply Customized Master Page
 Tie into theme engine w/ custom css (/theme site)

19. Questions?
 Questions / Comments
 Contact information
 Thomas Daly
 tdaly@bandrsolutions.com