SharePoint4RealFolks

I have spent alot of time dealing with Sharepoint. It all started almost a decade ago when they released the very first version of SharePoint which I implemented at an airline. I was hooked. The evolution of the product had spurred many innovative and business centric solutions. However, I have always been a fan of making things look the way a client or my current employer wants. Branding! There are literally tons of sites at this point that go over the intreacies of SharePoint branding. The cover everything from deploying custom masterpages and templates to designer modifications. All of them are useful. This series of articles will cover branding SharePoint Intranets initially. So many times a client wants their Intranet to be an extension of the company brand. This usually makes SharePoint developers cringe. Changing even small components to a masterpage design can have a trickle down impact that isn't seen for weeks or even months down the road. However, a corporate Intra