SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

Creating a minimalistic master page

SharePoint 2013 comes with an out of the box fairly minimalistic design. In this recipe, we will modify the seattle.master master page to hide many of the SharePoint controls to create an even more minimalistic look. A minimalistic-design approach usually provides more emphasis on the page content and less emphasis on gratuitous design elements.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a minimalistic master page:

1. Open SharePoint Designer.
2. Select Open Site. Enter the complete URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.
3. From the Navigation pane, select Master Pages.
4. In the list of files in the Master Pages library, make a copy of seattle.master (in our example, we have renamed it Seattle_Minimalistic.master).
5. Check ...