4 Most Common Mistakes Of SharePoint 2010 Branding & UI Design

Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 is a highly complicated developed thing that comes with lots of bumps and knobs. However, not all the lumps and knobs are true because after some time, we got some of them wrong. In this blog, I have covered 5 most common mistakes of SharePoint 2010 branding and UI design that you can check and avoid to make:

1. Using Inline Styles -

As we all know that inline styles are the most popular and highest priority of styles as compare to other styles. Therefore, it is enticing to use this style rather than fighting with the cascading style sheets of SharePoint. Many of you may do not want to manage styling in this way as inline styling mixes with content as well as presentation together. However, it is the worst practice ever because styles are not managed in a central place.

2. Net Designing Across Real Content –

When it comes to use text holder content, Lorem Ipsum is the most common text that used to demonstrate layout and general look and feel without focusing on content. Along with lorem Ipsum content, design represents one possible thing with the content. Most of the designs are using Lorem Ipsum that requires rework later in the implementation. However, it is not enough to just use placeholder text as you need to use design across the real content.

3. On collaboration Site, applying a fixed width –

Across the main content area, a fixed width layout has a complete set width that doesn’t expand to fill the browser window. You will have to eliminate extra space for users in order to add content and collaborate while fixing the width of a website meant for collaboration and doc management. Fix the width of the content area with the help of percentage instead of a set pixel value, if you are looking to fix the width on a collaboration website.

4. Ribbon Width Fixing

As we all know that sometimes a fixed width layout applied to the ribbon too, but it is the most common mistake because administrative tools are hidden when the width is fixed. Moreover, when it comes to fix the width, it changes the consistency of the user experience that intended by Microsoft’s ribbon that used in Microsoft Office 2010’s platform. While fixing the width of the ribbon, the icons squishes and site’s actions move to almost the middle of the page on high resolution.

So, these are the most common mistakes of SharePoint 2010 branding and UI design. To get more information on SharePoint development, you need to consult a professional SharePoint consulting service provider.