SharePoint Saturday Chicago 2013 - Designing for SharePoint 2013

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Marc D AndersonSharePoint MVP

Designing for SharePoint 2013


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Who Is Marc? Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis

Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA. Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform.

More than 30 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.

Three-time awardee of the Microsoft MVP award for SharePoint Server (2011, 2012, 2013).


Outline & Agenda SharePoint MVP Marc Anderson will introduce you to the

possibilities of design and customization in SharePoint 2013. Tour the newest interface features, learn best practices, and discover exciting new ways to interact with your SharePoint 2013 environment.

While we can still implement designs in SharePoint 2013 the “old way” we’re used to, there are new capabilities that can make the process easier for both designers who are very familiar with SharePoint and those designers who have never worked with SharePoint.

We’ll look at the new Design Manager capabilities and learn how to create and integrate Master pages, Display Templates, and Page Layouts. Not only does the Design Manager make it easier to create new designs for SharePoint from scratch, it can also help you manage your existing designs after an upgrade. The Design Manager even allows designers to use the tools they know and love like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, or any other HTML editor.


What Is Design?de·sign /dɪˈzaɪn/ [dih-zahyn]verb (used with object)1. to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge. 2. to plan and fashion artistically or skillfully. 3. to intend for a definite purpose: a scholarship designed for foreign students. 4. to form or conceive in the mind; contrive; plan: The prisoner designed an intricate escape. 5. to assign in thought or intention; purpose: He designed to be a doctor. 6. Obsolete. to mark out, as by a sign; indicate. verb (used without object) 7. to make drawings, preliminary sketches, or plans. 8. to plan and fashion the form and structure of an object, work of art, decorative scheme, etc.

Definition from Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/design

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/design




But wait…Noun9. an outline, sketch, or plan, as of the form and structure of a work of art, an edifice, or a machine to be executed or constructed. 10. organization or structure of formal elements in a work of art; composition. 11. the combination of details or features of a picture, building, etc.; the pattern or motif of artistic work: the design on a bracelet. 12. the art of designing: a school of design. 13. a plan or project: a design for a new process. 14. a plot or intrigue, especially an underhand, deceitful, or treacherous one: His political rivals formulated a design to unseat him. 15. designs, a hostile or aggressive project or scheme having evil or selfish motives: He had designs on his partner's stock. 16. intention; purpose; end. 17. adaptation of means to a preconceived end.


Form vs. Function

Form FunctionTypically the domain of

Designers, Marketing folks

Typically the domain of Developers, IT folks

RealityIt has to be both:“function requires

form”

The Form v Function Ratio by Dan Antion http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/The-Form-v-Function-Ratio

http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/The-Form-v-Function-Ratio


What’s the Solution? Use SharePoint as an out-of-box

application whenever possible - We designed the new SharePoint UI to be clean, simple and fast and work great out-of-box. We encourage you not to modify it which could add complexity, performance and upgradeability and to focus your energy on working with users and groups to understand how to use SharePoint to improve productivity and collaboration and identifying and promoting best practices in your organization.

SharePoint

“The New SharePoint” by Jeff Teper on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1012

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1012


Design Lite

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Change the Look



Publishing Portal



Information Architecture



Site Columns



Content Types



Design Manager



Design Manager Requirements

Design Manager is only available with Publishing Features activated, thus SharePoint Server only

Site Collectio

n

Site



Design Manager Trick Create a new Site Collection for design work Activate the Site Collection Feature:

SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure Activate the site feature: SharePoint Server

Publishing Do your design work in that Site Collection

with Design Manager Copy design artifacts into your core Site

Collection or deploy per your governance model

Caveat: Some adaptation is required



Design Manager Capabilities



Device Channels



Upload Design Files



Map a Network Drive How to: Map a network

drive to the SharePoint 2013 Master Page Gallery (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj733519.aspx)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj733519.aspx





Edit Master Pages



Snippets



Master Page Snippets



Edit Display Templates



Edit Page Layouts



Create a Page Layout



Page Layout Snippets



Publish and Apply Design



Create Design Package



Image Renditions



Image Renditions Requirement

The Blob Cache must be enabled in IIS Configure cache settings for a web

application in SharePoint Server 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770229.aspx)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770229.aspx






Image Renditions



Working with Image Renditions



Demo



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