Chapter 7. The Anatomy of a Theme

Chapter 6 showed how powerful Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are in terms of branding your SharePoint sites. SharePoint Themes take advantage of the power of CSS to package a set of styles and images to be applied to any SharePoint site. This chapter focuses on the internals of Themes, how they operate within the SharePoint framework, and how to generate a new Theme and publish it back to the web server. You will:

  • See how SharePoint Themes work.

  • Explore Themes that come with SharePoint.

  • Create a customized Theme using SharePoint Designer and publish it back to the web server.

  • Examine the main styles of a sample Theme.

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