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Consider the following general principles when branding portals in a SharePoint Online environment: The SharePoint Online service is constantly improving. Avoid customizing master pages. Customized branding of personal sites (OneDrive for Business sites) is not supported.
Although custom master pages are still supported, we don’t recommend this approach due to the reasons mentioned earlier; custom master pages lead to additional risks and maintenance costs in the long-term. Developers should consider alternative approaches that allow them to adjust the layout of SharePoint portals. These include:
Is there a way to override Office 365 bar branding?
Use the Web.AlternateCssUrl property to include custom CSS files. Don’t override the Office 365 Suite Bar branding because that results in a disconnected experience when users navigate away from the portal. Customers can apply company branding to the Office 365 sign-in page.
Do you need Office 365 to use SharePoint Online?
Note that this applies to the default modern experience of OneDrive for Business. SharePoint Online portals must be considered a part of the overall Office 365 ecosystem. That’s why every portal now has an Office 365 Suite Bar, and customizing it is not supported (see the section Office 365 Suite Bar ).
When you brand a SharePoint Online hub site, you can set it so the site branding is applied to any sites that associate with it. This includes any site theme or site design used by the hub site. This allows you to apply common navigation and branding across a set of sites and use accent colors to emphasize elements that need to stand out.
SharePoint development and design tools and practices 1 Terms and concepts. A feature activated in SharePoint publishing sites or team sites with publishing enabled that is used to import and manage site branding assets and export them to 2 Development options. 3 Design tools. 4 Design tool options for SharePoint Online.
How to make your SharePoint site look good?
Modern site branding SharePoint includes an updated set of default site themes that are responsive and look great on any device. With site themes, you can customize your site’s logo and colors to match your brand. Site designs provide specific layouts and other functionality for your site.