Branding a SharePoint Site Using a Custom Master Page

Version: 1.0

Description

Customizing an intranet site with your company’s identity and branding can help create a more effective collaboration experience. SharePoint allows users to create and specify a custom Master Page to replace the look and feel of the site. In this lab, you’ll learn how to construct and deploy a Master Page to customize your SharePoint site.

Overview

Lab Time: 30 minutes

Lab Folder: C:\%Office365TrainingKit%\Labs\8.2

Lab Overview: Customizing an intranet site with your company’s identity and branding can help create a more effective collaboration experience. In some cases, style changes using Themes or alternate CSS are not enough to brand a site. SharePoint uses Master Pages to provide the structure, layout and navigation for pages and define what style sheets are referenced and used to style a site. Designers and developers can create and specify a custom Master Page, giving them full control to customize the look and feel of the site.

Each branding project will of course have its own style and design. In this lab, you will learn how to construct and deploy a Master Page to customize your SharePoint site. The customizations are meant to demonstrate some of the typical changes made when branding a site.

System Requirements

You must have the following items to complete this lab:

  • SharePoint 2010
  • Visual Studio 2010
  • SharePoint Online
    • Note: You will need administrator access to an SPO site collection to perform the steps in this lab.