Design manager is a publishing feature available in publishing sites for both Sharepoint Server and Office 365. Using design manager you can brand the internet-facing websites in Sharepoint Server 2013 and Office 365.
Skills required:
- Having some knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Javascript
Open a Sharepoint publishing site,
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Click site settings -> Design manager,
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Before doing that I created some sample HTML and CSS,
Html
- <!DOCTYPE html>
- <html>
-
- <head>
- <meta charset="utf-8">
- <title>Masterpage coversion using Html and css</title>
- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css\custom.css"> </head>
-
- <body>
- <header>
- <p>this is my header </p>
- </header>
- <footer>
- <p>this is my footer</p>
- </footer>
- </body>
-
- </html>
CSS
- header{
- background-color: blue;
- }
- footer{
- background-color : green;
- }
- p{
- font-family: callibri;
- font-weight: bold;
- font-size:22px;
- }
Click on designer manager.
Click on Upload design files.
![Upload design files]()
Map the master page gallery to network drive for copying the HTML Structure.
URL: http://trenmaxorgs/sites/pubs/_catalogs/masterpage/
![drive]()
Copy and paste the HTML and css files here,
![files]()
Now open Design Manager.
Click Edit master page.
Select Convert an HTML file into a Sharepoint masterpage,
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Select the HTML file created and click insert.
So now the conversion has been successful without errors,
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So now the master has been generated successfully
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Here is the final result,
![result]()