SharePoint Designer 2013: Branding SharePoint Sites

Course details

Learn how to use SharePoint Designer 2013 to alter the default appearance of SharePoint websites and brand them for your business. This course covers some of the new branding features in SharePoint, as well as HTML techniques that leverage your existing design skills. Not a designer? Don't worry. Gini Courter shows how to customize your site in a few clicks using SharePoint Designer's Design Manager and composed looks. For those new to SharePoint, she also starts off with a review of basic tasks like creating sites and pages, and improved features for images and video. Every SharePoint site doesn't have to look the same. Give yours a fresh visual identity with these techniques.

Topics include:
Creating a new site
Creating and editing pages
Publishing a site
Working with composed looks
Modifying site navigation
Adding images and video to your SharePoint site
Customizing composed looks
Creating master pages from HTML designs
Using the Snippet Gallery

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Working with SharePoint

04 - Understanding the SharePoint products
05 - Exploring a SharePoint site
06 - Understanding lists and libraries
07 - Understanding branding in SharePoint

2. Working with Sites and Pages

08 - Creating a new site
09 - Creating a new page
10 - Editing a page
11 - Enabling publishing on a site
12 - Editing a page on a publishing site

3. Understanding Permissions

13 - Introducing permissions
14 - Discovering your permissions

4. Applying Composed Looks

15 - Understanding composed looks
16 - Choosing a composed look
17 - Modifying a composed look

5. Modifying Navigation

18 - Understanding SharePoint 2013 navigation
19 - Modifying navigation links and settings
20 - Creating a term set for custom navigation
21 - Editing navigation on a publishing site

6. Customizing with Images and Video

22 - Uploading images
23 - Adding an image to a page
24 - Using image renditions on publishing sites
25 - Editing an image rendition
26 - Creating a new rendition
27 - Uploading videos
28 - Displaying a video from SharePoint
29 - Embedding an external video

7. Customizing a Composed Look

30 - Diving into composed looks
31 - Installing the SharePoint Color Palette tool
32 - Installing SharePoint Designer
33 - Creating a custom color palette
34 - Adding the custom palette to the Theme Gallery
35 - Creating a custom composed look

8. Using HTML in SharePoint

36 - Understanding the Design Manager
37 - Mapping a network drive
38 - Loading assets into the Master Page Gallery
39 - Creating a master page from an HTML design
40 - Modifying the master page
41 - Using the Snippet Gallery
42 - Publishing a master page
43 - Assigning a master page
44 - Creating a design package (WSP)

Conclusion

45 - Next steps