Phil's Top 10 Best Practices for Branding SharePoint (Part 1 of 10)

This series of posts is border line ridiculously long, but I hope it is a fruitful endeavor nevertheless. In my vast journey’s around the great world of SharePoint, I have drawn many conclusions on what is good to do and what is not so good regarding SharePoint branding. I started documenting my thoughts in what will become a whitepaper on the subject, but it became clear to me early on that the whitepaper will be quite lengthy, and since I still have a day job, I figured it best to break it up into a series of posts with the paper serving as a supplemental and combined read when it is finished. My goal in this series is to outline the best practices and major concepts, the “what” when it comes to branding, and to outline the “how” and detailed steps in the whitepaper that will follow. Hopefully I will have the 10 posts done within the next 4 weeks (among posts on other subjects I plan on doing), with the whitepaper to follow 2 weeks thereafter.

Additionally, my desire is that these posts will generate feedback, enough so that the community can help shape the outcome and depth of the top 10 list. I will also use such feedback to help shape the contents of the whitepaper. Feel free to leave a comment if you want to contribute or raise concerns around my conclusions. Also – be sure to check out Bill & Ben’s new book on SharePoint best practices, that book is sure to be a hot seller.