1 / 24

Driving User Adoption with Custom Branding Development

Driving User Adoption with Custom Branding Development. SPS Baltimore. James Sturges and Anastasia Czerw. About Us. James Sturges Manager of PMO & Quality at Jornata, focusing on custom application design and branding

olesia
Download Presentation

Driving User Adoption with Custom Branding Development

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Driving User Adoption with Custom Branding Development SPS Baltimore James Sturges and Anastasia Czerw

  2. About Us • James Sturges • Manager of PMO & Quality at Jornata, focusing on custom application design and branding • Been with Jornata just over 2 years, worked with UI/UX design at “.com” startups before that • Based in Boston at Jornata HQ • Anastasia Czerw • Developer at Jornata, client side, server side, you name it side • Worked with SharePoint for a little over a year • Moved to Baltimore in December – not as scary as everyone said it would be! Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  3. About Jornata • Founded in 2006 (~6 years of successful projects) • 20 full-time resources dedicated to SharePoint and Office 365 – and we’re hiring! • Hundreds of SharePoint and Office 365 projects • Located in downtown Boston – next to Faneuil hall • Nationally Managed Office 365 Partner • Gold Competency partner in SharePoint Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  4. Overview • Planning • Branding Elements • Deployment Options • Best Practices • Farm vs. Sandboxed • “Auto Branding” • Demos • Extras Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  5. What is Branding? • What is branding? • Something that distinguishes your site from everyone else’s • What does branding mean to you or your organization? • Could be as simple as a logoor a whole site overthrow Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  6. How can Branding help user adoption? • SharePoint is very generic • Connects target prospects emotionally • Make navigation more instinctual • Add personalized elements for social interaction • Tie in internal, corporate resources and information Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  7. Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  8. Planning • The first step of branding is planning, planning, planning • What is your goal? • Who is your audience? Think of the user! • Involve the business, get the right people on board • What Browsers will you be supporting? • Firefox vs. IE vs. Chrome • Test early and often… very important! Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  9. Development • Theming engine • MS Theme Builder • Using PowerPoint to build themes • SharePoint Designer 2010 • Custom code/Feature (Visual Studio 2010) • Farm or sandboxed (MS Sandboxed Example, video) • Feature stapling custom master pages • Deploying to Style Library vs. Layouts • Breaking site definition of files (“unghosting”) Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  10. Tools • Developer tools for Branding • IE “F12” Developer Tools (also in Chrome, Safari) • Remember to refresh after page load! • Browser and document modes • Firebug for Firefox • SharePoint Designer 2010 • Visual Studio CSS syntax plugins • Web Essentials • W3Schools.com • ColorCalculator Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  11. Elements of Branding Elements of Branding • Master Pages – defines the functionality and content areas/layouts on the page • Page Layouts • JavaScript/JQuery • CSS – “Cascading Style Sheets”; defines visual styles • Images Master Page Content Page Master Page Web Request Content Page 11 Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  12. Master Pages • Never modify system pages directly! Make a copy • Creates a consistent “frame” for your portal • Clean v4 – Tom Daly, B&R Solutions; basic V4.master with inline documentation and no V3 content areas • Starter Master Pages – Randy Drisgill, SharePoint 911; inline documentation comments, some issues with Treeview • Just the Essentials – Heather Solomon • Responsive HTML 5 “V5” – Kyle Schaeffer; some known issues • Portal pages use V4, search uses minimal.master (convert V4 for Search) Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  13. CSS • Special Classes • noindex: prevent content from being indexed • s4-notdlg: hide elements from dialog boxes • s4-notsetwidth: stops JavaScript from resizing element when using fixed width master pages • Note about the s4-workspace: be very careful about removing or modifying, may break scrolling • Heather Solomon CSS chart for SP2010 • Use dev tools to find classes (refresh after page load!) • Delegate Controls and AdditionalPageHead for if no access to Master page (VS User Control) • Hide SharePoint/ASP controls rather than remove Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  14. Farm Solutions • “Full trust” solutions, unrestricted access to servers • Code can change data, functionality • Must be deployed on servers by an administrator Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  15. DEMO Dev Tools and Delegate Control Branding Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  16. Sandboxed Solutions • Self contained to a site collection (isolated) • Can be deployed by end users through the SharePoint UI • Created through SP Designer or Visual Studio • Requires Sandboxed Code Service, can be controlled by administrators Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  17. DEMO Branding with Sandboxed Solutions Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  18. Feature Based Development • Why it’s awesome • Easily repeatable branding across sites/webs • Automatically apply branding with feature stapling based on definitions • POWERFUL! Change theme, master pages, apply CSS, replace images, etc. • Why it’s a pain • Need to know Visual Studio • Need to recompile and redeploy to make changes (resets IIS, need maintenance windows) Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  19. DEMO Branding with Farm Solutions Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  20. Appendix A: What’s New in 2010 • New SharePoint Controls Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  21. Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  22. Appendix B: Helpful CSS Tricks • > • Example: table.MyCustomTable > tr > td {style:value;} • !important; • Add this to overwrite cascading classes, example: {font-family: Arial, sans-serif !important;} • Conditional Browser Statements • <SharePoint:CssRegistrationrunat=“server” Name=“CustomCSS.css” ConditionalExpression=“IE 7.0” /> • Conditional CSS Statements (MSDN link)<!-- [if IE 7]> .class {style:value;} <![endif]--> • Hide left side “quick launch” navigation links Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  23. Resources • W3 Documentation:http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ • W3Schools Documentation:http://www.w3schools.com/css/ Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

  24. Questions? • James Sturges • james@jornata.com • http://sharepoint.jsturges.com • @jcsturges • Anastasia Czerw • anastasia.czerw@jornata.com • http://czerwsup.wordpress.com/ • http://www.jornata.com Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.

More Related