Making Sharepoint Look Good

The Content Area

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• Avoid any use of rounded corners within the content area.
• The simple black dropdown arrows need to remain as they are.
• The icon next to the ‘add new’ text also needs to remain as is.
• A particular style can be set for the various content area heading text colour, size, font and background colour/ subtle graphics for the heading bars.
• You can also set individual styles for the general body content text, link text, table headers, table content, list text, and the ‘add new…’ text.
• The colour and thickness of horizontal rules (lines) can be determined – and separate styling can be set for lines between headings and content areas, and lines between content and the ‘add new…’ text.
• Tabular areas can also be styled, with column and row background colours, subtle background images, border colours / thickness.
• The entire background to the content area can be styled in terms of colour. A subtle background image or repeat image could also be used but be very mindful of sufficient clarity and contrast around/behind the content, as well as how content components move around
• The horizontal bar containing the breadcrumb at the top of the content area can be independently styled – text & link colour, font, padding, background colour/image.

Hmph … I’m sure I’m missing a load of little aspects here. Probably some big ones too. I’m distracted but I’ll post this anyhow, a work in progress. Do please feel free to question or correct me on any of these points!

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