Customizing the Office 365 Public Facing Website

For Customizing the public-facing Website that is available with SharePoint Online for Microsoft Office 365 you should go for following options:

Option 1: Out-of-Box Editing

Option 2: Apply Minimal Master Page and customize it using SharePoint Designer

For customizing website through Out-of-Box you can refer this Article : http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-online-small-business-help/step-3-customize-the-public-facing-website-HA102029499.aspx

When you try to customize the website master page through SharePoint Designer 2010 it will gives you different errors. So to avoid these errors firstly copy Minimal Master Page (Create duplicate file) which is located to /_catalogs/masterpage/minimal.master, then customize it in SharePoint Designer 2010. Apply this customized Master Page to all pages.

This is my 50^th Post On SharePoint Development and may be this will be helpful as pervious 49….

Quick Note: Office 365 Developer Training Kit available

It’s great news for all SharePoint Developers! Microsoft also announced the “Office 365 Developer Training Kit“.

With the release of this training kit, developers have a great starting point for customizing Office 365.
Guidance that provides developers with advanced guidance on how to develop for Office 365 including SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online

 Besides the offline version, there is also an online version named “Office 365 Developer Training Course“.

Links:

1. SharePoint Online Developer Resource Center
2. SharePoint Online: An Overview for Developers