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MIX09 Video: State of the Art in Web Site Design on Microsoft SharePoint

This March 2009 video from self-described New Zealand Hobbit, Chris Auld, is the first video of the auspices of Microsoft that shows before a live audience how to customize SharePoint using themes in an automated, professional manner:

http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C20F

Some important points:

Theme generation and deployment is shown in this video using a brand-new tool for Visual Studio 2008 called Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3

Theme development does not touch any HTML—only CSS and images are involved. According to the speaker this is “easier” and faster than using SharePoint designer to modify Master Pages. But, to get “easier” in perspective, please see Heather Solomon’s SharePoint 2007 CSS Reference Chart—this chart is about 14 pages long!

For more information please read these entries from New Zealand: “My Sessions from MIX09 last week,” “Useful Stuff for Building SharePoint Themes” and “Creating the Structure for a SharePoint Theme in VSeWSS v1.3.”

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