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• Branding Lessons Learned 2: Post-launch

  Yay. We launched a few days ago. Now it's time for another recap of lessons learned on the technology and process fronts: Process Learnings (AKA battle scars): Requirements & Design. I won't go into the reasons why, but we had an exceedingly shallow Read More... Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:30 AM by bgeoffro | 1 Comments Filed under: branding, MOSS, sharepoint, customization

• MOSS Intranet Portal Branding Lessons Learned 1: Omissions & Test Results

  We've spent the past four days doing user acceptance and regression testing on our branding, and I've found a couple of essential additions. Expect more as the testing wraps up over the next week or two: Branding the "Operation in Progress" Page. Another Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:41 PM by bgeoffro | 2 Comments Filed under: branding, MOSS, sharepoint, customization

• Branding a MOSS Corporate Intranet Portal, Part 3: LAYOUTS Pages

  Introduction In order to get a consistent look and feel across all the pages, we had to brand the LAYOUTS pages as well. Since we needed webapp-specific branding and didn’t want to deal with the additional effort involved in branding & testing SSPAdmin Read More... Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 4:51 PM by bgeoffro | 8 Comments Filed under: branding, MOSS, sharepoint, customization

• Branding a MOSS Corporate Intranet Portal, Part 2: Site & System Pages

  Introduction This post covers a sample technical design for the most common branding task you’ll encounter for site & system pages – adapting ALL site & system pages on ALL sites to your customer’s look-and-feel standards. We accomplish this with Read More... Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 4:46 PM by bgeoffro | 9 Comments Filed under: branding, MOSS, sharepoint, customization, stapling, features

• Branding a MOSS Corporate Intranet Portal, Part 1b: Branding Methods by Scope and Scenario

  Branding Methods by Scope and Scenario The methods matrices referred to in Part 1a appear below. Refer to that post for context, or you won’t find this very useful... Scope: Farm Single Site Definition Site Page Single Site Definition System Page All Read More... Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 4:43 PM by bgeoffro | 3 Comments Filed under: branding, MOSS, sharepoint, customization

• Branding a MOSS Corporate Intranet Portal, Introduction

  We’re finally starting to tie a little bow around the branding effort for my customer’s MOSS intranet collaboration environment, so I’m finally taking the time to gather all the planning and design materials from the past month or two into something I Read More... Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 4:09 PM by bgeoffro | 4 Comments Filed under: branding, MOSS, sharepoint, customization