Are you an organization that brands your corporate intranet ? If so, how far do you go :
- Customer logo and theme ?
- Full on new master pages, new CSS – you can barely tell it’s SharePoint ?
Really interested to know peoples thoughts. I can see the benefit for branding external facing, but internal is it worth the cost and effort (and potential upgrade issues) ?
Hi Mark,
In the beginning I did a logo and perhaps some color replacements and the customers where satisfied. But after we got some developers (IT Pro and business consulting myself) we made some complete branding packages (masterpages, CSS, new graphics etc.) and the customers where thrilled.
The cost of a branding package depends on how much the customers need. And that is the question: “How much branding is needed on an intranet?”. In my experience the users really adopts the intranet way a lot faster when the design is appealing and just looks great. -please try adding a design package to an intranet you know already and I think you can confirm this also. There are some good packages out there you can try out or even get for free these days.
Regarding the upgrades – yes, the branding package needs to be adjusted but Microsoft did a good job making this somewhat easy. It is not from scratch this time 🙂
