When it comes to knowing SharePoint branding, master pages are a must. In this part, we’ll see what’s involved in making changes and creating new master pages using SharePoint Designer 2013. Hands-on branding starts here.

This section focuses on out-of-the-box components available to make branding changes to publishing sites.

Do you know how your SharePoint site looks like on some of the other key browsers? Despite your best efforts, your users may have a completely different opinion on the look and feel of your site just because they are using a browser which doesn’t recognize your custom branding. Learn how you can make your site render as similar as possible in other browsers without disturbing the functionality for the rest of the users using your primary supported browser.

Apart from team sites, your corporate intranet may be using SharePoint publishing infrastructure. Learn some of the key differences when it comes to branding publishing sites. In here, we’ll cover branding page layouts and page instances which use layouts.

Do you have all of the necessary tools on the SharePoint 2010 search page to make it easier to find items and navigate around the site? Take a look at how little effort is required to make your SharePoint 2010 site more user friendly by using out-of-the-box controls and JavaScript.

Client side interaction on your SharePoint 2010 site will make all the difference between perceiving your site as plain and static or feature rich and user friendly. In this module, we’ll take a look at how you can add additional interaction to your site using JavaScript and jQuery libraries.

Any SharePoint page your users will look at will contain several web parts. By applying branding to out-of-the-box web parts, you can ensure consistent experience on the sub-sites and pages without having to modify individual instance of those. Learn how to apply your custom look and feel to some of the most common SharePoint 2010 web parts.

When compelling site design vision calls for structural changes on pages, SharePoint 2010 masterpage is the best mechanism to implement your vision. In this video, learn how you can apply unique site branding and style to an out-of-the-box theme site instantly transforming its look and feel as you go along.

When your site requires more unique look and feel you can use powerful SharePoint 2010 theme engine to translate complex transformations into a simple implementation. Learn how you can re-color images used on the site to match the rest of your theme with no code at all apart from CSS. We’ll also cover how you can rollback and apply new changes to the look and feel of the site just by using out-of-the-box tools.

Out-of-the-box SharePoint 2010 site doesn’t have to look plain and with a default color scheme. Learn how you can apply more compelling look and feel to an existing SharePoint 2010 site just by using Office 2010 tools with no code at all.