Randy Drisgill - SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design

SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design

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Dedicated to waffles (thank you for staying delicious) and to Jackie (the love of my life) for always being there to eat them with me.

Randy Drisgill

To my mom, thanks for always correcting my grammar.

John Ross

To my daughter, Julia, the artistic one in the family.

Paul Stubbs

About the Authors

Randy Drisgill has more than a decade of experience developing, designing, and implementing web technologies for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. For the past 5 years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint branding projects at SharePoint911, which was subsequently acquired by Rackspace in 2012. During this time, Randy has worked on more than 50 internal and public-facing SharePoint branding projects.

Randy is an active member of the SharePoint community, having contributed to several articles and books on the topic, as well as being the cofounder/comanager of the Orlando SharePoint User Group (OSPUG). In 2009, Randy was recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint branding by being awarded MVP status for SharePoint Server.

Randy lives in Orlando, Florida, with his wife. You can find Randy online on Twitter as @Drisgill or at his blog at http://blog.drisgill.com .

John Ross is a Senior Consultant with Rackspace and has more than eight years of experience implementing solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies as well as government organizations. He has worked with all project phases from analysis to implementation and has been involved with a wide range of SharePoint solutions that include public-facing Internet sites, corporate intranets, and extranets.

John is an active member of the community and has presented at conferences all around the world. He is the cofounder/comanager of the Orlando SharePoint User Group (OSPUG). In 2009, John was awarded Microsofts MVP award for SharePoint Server for his community contributions.

John lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife and two children. Visit his blog at http://johnrossjr.wordpress.com or follow his SharePoint adventures on Twitter @JohnRoss.

Paul Stubbs is a Microsoft Architect for Windows Azure focusing on cloud solution development and SharePoint. Previously, Paul worked with the SharePoint community developing SharePoint, Office, and Silverlight solutions and training. Paul has also worked as a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team in Redmond, Washington. Paul is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has received Microsoft Certified Applications Developer (MCAD) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) certifications. He has authored several books on solution development using Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and Silverlight, wrote several articles for MSDN Magazine, and has also spoken at many conferences such as Tech-Ed, Build, MIX, and the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and Tech-Ready. Paul has a passion for new technologies and sharing those experiences with the community on his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs.

About the Contributor

Ryan Keller has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2007, and he has worked as a SharePoint consultant since 2009 when he joined SharePoint911, a consulting company from Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2012, Rackspace Hosting acquired SharePoint911, and he is now part of the SharePoint team at Rackspace. He has helped write and edit material related to SharePoint 2010 for Microsoft, wrote as a contributing author to the popular Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration, and served as a technical editor for Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010, Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design , and for this book, Professional SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design . He is also a contributing author on Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration. Since 2011, Ryan has focused his consulting efforts exclusively on SharePoint branding and has worked on projects ranging from simple designs to complex custom branding solutions. Ryan lives in Firestone, Colorado, with his wife Brittany and two kids, Kylie and Nathan.