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Master Pages and SharePoint (Part 1 of 6 - Introduction to Master Pages)

Started by Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine) · 10 months ago

Introduction

This is the first article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint.
Introduction to Master Pages.

Examining the out of the box Master Pages in SharePoint.

Developing a custom Master Page for SharePoint.

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13 comments

  • Luis Andrade

    10 months ago

    excellent article, very good!
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  • Mark

    10 months ago

    I will have to check out share point. I have never used it.
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  • Harish Mathanan

    10 months ago

    Hi Greg, very good start. Hope to gain more insight from your upcoming articles, I understand that Heather Solomon has some good articles and blogs regarding branding in WSS and MOSS. What are your suggestions for beginers like me, to learn and apply SharePoint branding effectively? Thanks you.
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  • Greg Galipeau

    10 months ago

    Hey Harish. Yes, Heather Soloman has great stuff on branding - I would recommend looking into her stuff. She even has a css reference chart to show you what css elements control what sections of a SharePoint page (I really like that chart).
    My suggestion on getting started with branding in SharePoint is to start with just generally css branding. Try changing the css files around to see what you can do. After you do that maybe go into SharePoint designer and start changing the Master Page on a site to see what can be done. Pay close attention to everything going on in the Master Page while you are in SharePoint designer so you can get a feel for what it contains. Then, after you see what you can do directly against a Master Page in SharePoint designer, you will be ready to learn how to deploy Master Pages to sites through features and solutions.
    This series of articles is my attempt to write an article every step of the way through the Master Page modification cycle. Now that we have just given an introduction I am going to show the more specific concepts of SharePoint Master Pages in my next article. Then I am going to go through some of the techniques I mentioned in this comment on modifying the Master Page through Designer or html. Then I am going to go through how to wrap it all up in a feature.
    Hopefully by the end of this series you should have a good understanding of how to brand effectively. But, if you want to get a head start, I would suggest looking into the suggestions I mentioned above in this comment.
    Stay tuned.... Greg
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  • Harish Mathanan

    10 months ago

    Can't wait, thanks Greg,
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  • manik

    10 months ago

    very good article
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  • Ayman El-Hattab

    10 months ago

    I'm a sharepoint branding beginner .. can't wait man :)
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  • Johnny

    8 months ago

    Hi Greg, nice article.

    In my sharepoint site i have implemented what you have described. but content that i enter on any of my content pages does not get rendered within the ContentPlaceHolders.

    <asp:Content ID=”Content2″ ContentPlaceHolderId=”ContentPlaceHolder2″ runat=”server”>
    This is the content that does not render on my page</asp:Content>

    have you seen this problem before?

    any help would be greatly appreciated.
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  • Santosh

    8 months ago

    Hi Greg,
    It's a excellent article on master page
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  • Gbenga

    7 months ago

    how do i add a masterpage to an html page using sharepoint?
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  • Gunther

    6 months ago

    Very clear explanation on how the master / content page work together and have their own function related to eachother, i'm curious to read the other articles on how you can modify a master page in sharepoint, it surely is a timesaver instead of doing every page in sharepoint one by one.
    I start to like this software more and more.

    Thanks for these fine articles Greg.
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  • Financial Companies

    1 month ago

    Hi Greg.. thanks for this post.. I'm sure many would be really appreciating your work. I am just a beginner to use sharepoint. This indeed has helped me widening my knowledge. Thanks once again.
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  • Anis

    1 month ago

    I would like to thank for such a nice article.

    I have a doubt and i feel you the right person to solve it.

    We are currently having 300 sites. We have a requirement to display the name of the site owner on each site and sub sites.

    I feel that we can make this changes in the master page. Kindly inform me whether it is possible and also mention the steps. I am a newbie to sharepoint so kindly be simple in explanation.

    Thanks in advance

    Anis
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