StYles
First add the CSS to the master page:
- SharePoint 2010 CSS references in Master Pages – Erik Swenson
- The Shiny New CSSRegistration Control in SharePoint 2010 – Buta No IE
- SharePoint 2010 CSS Reference chart – Heather Solomon
- SharePoint 2010 Themes – Erik Swenson
- How the SharePoint 2010 Theming Engine Works – Buta No IE
Starter Master Pages
- Starter Master Pages on CodePlex – Randy Drisgill
- Starter-Master-2010-v1.0.txt – Kyle’s SharePoint Karate, theSUG.com
- Fixed Ribbon Starter Master Page – Kyle’s SharePoint Karate, theSUG.com
- Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 Starter Master Page – MSDN
- Cleanv4.master – Tom Daly
- Responsive HTML5 Master Page – Kyle Schaeffer
Branding a Master Page
- Branding a Master Page -
- Refining the Branding of a Master Page – astaticstate.com
- Mastering the Master Page – Advanced Branding for SharePoint 2010 – Mike Plekkenpol
Fixed Width Layout
- Fixed Width Master Pages in SharePoint 2010 – Elumination Blog
- How to Create a Fixed-Width 3 Column layout – Tom Wilson, Styled Point
- Centered layout with CSS & v4.master on SharePoint 2010 – SharePoint Blues
Dialog Boxes
- Dealing with Background Images in Your Dialog Boxes – Heather Waterman
Rounded Web Parts
- Customize the UI of web parts in SharePoint 2010 – Christian Stahl
- Branding web parts in SharePoint 2010 – Thomas Zepeda McMillan *I love this solution
Fixed Width
- Fixed Width Master Pages in SharePoint 2010 – Elumination Blog
- How to Create a Fixed-Width 3 Column layout – Tom Wilson, Styled Point
- Centered layout with CSS & v4.master on SharePoint 2010 – SharePoint Blues
Sticky Footer
- My SharePoint 2010 Sticky Footer Solution – Tom Daly
- Other Resources: CSS Sticky Footer, CSS Sticky Footer II, CSS Sticky Footer III, JS Sticky Footer
Ribbon
- Un-Floating the Ribbon in custom Master Pages – Randy Drisgill
- Ribbon Customization: Changing Placement, Look and Behavior – Tom Wilson, Styled Point
- Customizing Ribbon Positioning – Jonathan Kern UX Developer, SharePoint Foundation
- Code to Hide the Ribbon and Site Actions Menu for Anonymous Users – Elumination (Useful for public facing SharePoint sites)
Navigation
- Very cool Mega Drop Down Navigation check out Jakob Neilson’s article on usability of Megadrop down navigation
- Left Nav Accordion with Highlight Location -Yanling Lei *untested but want to try
SearchBox
- Branding the Search Box in SharePoint 2010 – Christian Stahl
- Reskin/Restyle the Standard Sharepoint 2010 Search Box – Steve Ottenad
- Reskin the advanced search box in SharePoint 2010 – Steve Ottenad
Search Center
- Converting a Custom SharePoint 2010 Master Page into a Search Center Master Page
- Adding Navigate Up breadcrumb on your search center
- SharePoint 2010 Master Page Adapters for Search – Nick Hadlee A set of SharePoint 2010 sandbox solutions that modify the SharePoint 2010 Search page layouts to work with standard and custom master pages.
- Branding SharePoint 2010 Search
My Sites
- Starter SharePoint 2010 My Sites (Full) – Randy Drisgill, John Ross Jr (Codeplex)
Rich Text Editor
- How to print SharePoint 2010 page without header and navigation – sharepoint-sandbox.com
Slideshow
- Image slideshow with CQWP in SharePoint 2010 - Christian Stahl
- Flexslider – my absolute favorite slider. This responsive content slider is very usable and easy to implement.
- Building a fully featured jQuery content slider for SharePoint 2010
Web Parts
- Location aware content rollup – Serve’s SharePoint Blog
Content Query Web Parts
- Customizing Content Query Web Parts – astaticstate.com
- Image slideshow with CQWP in SharePoint 2010 – Christian Stahl
- Display News pages with CQWP – Part I – Christian Stahl
- Display News pages with CQWP – Part II – Christian Stahl
- Display News pages with CQWP – Part III – Christian Stahl
Dataview Web Part
- Alpha Selection of List Items in a Data View Web Part (DVWP) – Marc Anderson
- How to customize a grouped view in the Data View web part – Christian Stahl
Downloads
- SPXSLT – This project is a place to share useful XSL templates that can be reused in SharePoint Content Query Web Parts (CQWPs), Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), and other XSL-based Web Parts.
- SPServices – a jQuery library which abstracts SharePoint’s Web Services and makes them easier to use. (Marc Anderson, Codeplex)
- 2 Free templates for SharePoint 2010 Publishing sites
- SharePoint 2010 Theme
Article Series
- Brand your SharePoint? (Part 1)
- SharePoint: Learn to Brand from the Start (Part 2)
- Brand SharePoint: Global Navigation – The Journey Begins (Part 3)
- Brand SharePoint: Global Navigation – Journey into the Menu Items (Part 4)
- Brand SharePoint: Global Navigation – Selected Menu Items (Part 5)
- Brand SharePoint: Reaching the End of the Global Navigation Journey (Part 6)
- Brand SharePoint: Global Navigation – Final (Part 7)
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