Comments on: Introduction to Master Pages

By: Gunther

Gunther — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:02:29 +0000

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.

By: Gbenga

Gbenga — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:38:16 +0000

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

By: Santosh

Santosh — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:52:17 +0000

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

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:14:58 +0000

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.

By: Ayman El-Hattab

Ayman El-Hattab — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:24:10 +0000

I'm a sharepoint branding beginner .. can't wait man

By: manik

manik — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:14:45 +0000

very good article

By: Harish Mathanan

Harish Mathanan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:34:27 +0000

Can't wait, thanks Greg,

By: Greg Galipeau

Greg Galipeau — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:59:54 +0000

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

By: Greg Galipeau

Greg Galipeau — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:59:54 +0000

By: Harish Mathanan

Harish Mathanan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:39:31 +0000

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.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:20:57 +0000

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

By: Luis Andrade

Luis Andrade — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:21:31 +0000

excellent article, very good!