Branding a SharePoint site is a common goal for many SharePoint users and a subject that comes up frequently on our blog. By branding, I’m referring to changing the look and feel of your SharePoint site so that it matches your corporate brand.

This summer I met with Jared Lasater, a solution developer and partner technology lead at Salient6 (salient6.com). Jared has spent a lot of time customizing SharePoint sites and ASP web applications for his clients. I interviewed him about his recent project, where he branded an Internet-facing SharePoint site for the Puget Sound SharePoint User Group (psspug.org), a local SharePoint group in the Seattle area.

 

In the video, he describes taking the site from the default SharePoint look and feel (the BlueBand template) and creating a whole new look with new master pages, page layouts, CSS, and a rich set of graphics provided by Robert Chrestensen (designer/creative director at Salient6). He discusses his general approach to branding, some of the challenges he encountered on the project, and the overall benefits of branding a SharePoint site.

 

The video is 6 minutes long. I hope you enjoy!

 

 

Thanks,
Tom

 

The SharePoint End User Content Team