So! Some more information has been released regarding the upcoming SharePoint 2010 – and it includes detail that may interest those who want to easily change the colours & fonts of their out-of-the-box SharePoint site.
Click here for the video!
Jump to 16.52 in the video (or simply click on Rich Themes header in the Feature Highlights list below the video) to shortcut to the Theme portion.
There is some info regarding the new office ribbon which is being brought in for SharePoint .. as well as a demo of basic wysiwyg text & image editing features along with a cursory glance at how ‘very basic’ theming can be achieved through importing Theme Colours from PowerPoint for instance.
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The above linked screenshot shows how SharePoint can understand imported Theme Colours from PowerPoint and how you can define (and preview) which colours associate with elements of your site.
As for how good and usable this is (for v.light themes) – I’m reserving judgement until :
- I’ve been able to have a tinker with it
- the developers here tell me how scaleable/deployable particular font/colour sets are
- we find out how customisable the admin restrictions / access rights are for these features
Filed under: Handy Reference Link , SharePoint 2010, sharepoint themes
