Creating Fully Branded Master Page

RandyHJ · December 1st, 2010, 05:02 PM

I'm working in Chapter 8 of Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design.

I'm on Page 232 at step 5.

I used Drisgill's publishing starter Master Page to create a custom master page. At Step 5 he begins the process of changing the User Login button. He shows the following code in the book:

Code:

<div class="customTop customPagePadding">
<asp:LoginView id="LoginView" runat="server">

In Step 4, he has you copy and paste your already formed html document under the

Code:

<div id="MSO_ContentDiv" runat="server">

.

Does anyone know where the code for Step 5 goes in the custom Master Page?

Thanks.

drisgill · December 2nd, 2010, 01:26 PM

This section was difficult to explain exactly what has to happen (a lot of steps that need to happen in one giant file). This is why I recommend downloading the finished code from the Wrox site and taking a look at it.

Essentially what happens here is:

You added the HTML that was created in Chapter 3
You are then finding parts of that HTML and replacing parts with SharePoint code... in this case you are changing this part that was pasted from the HTML: <a href="#" class="customLogin">User Login</a> with the the <asp:LoginView>

Does that help?

-Randy

RandyHJ · December 2nd, 2010, 02:06 PM

I was looking for somewhere to place it outside of that pasted html.

Honestly, though, I was attempting to follow your steps with code from one of our simpler corporate sites, and that is why I got lost, there was no correspondence for me with what you wrote in the book. Sorry about that.

I have reconfigured my virtual machine and created a separate web application for your code and my code. I'm going to do your out of the book and mine as well, hopefully I'll be able to bridge what i am doing.

One other area that I think would be good to address, is the planning for navigation when you have an existing site that has separate divisions of content. How do you decide when you should create a new site for a division or use a separate site collection within the same web application?

I'm thinking now in terms of different categories of products that break down into types, that break down into brands, that finally break down into models. How do you use SharePoint navigation structures to mimic existing navigation in an ASP.NET website?

Thanks,

Randy