So today i have released onto Codeplex a SharePoint 2010 Masterpage design which is inspired from the Metro UI of Windows 8. The design has the following features:
- Liquid Layout
- Cufon Integration
- Jquery Accordion Quicklaunch with Sub Item Count
- Full Solution with single Site Feature to activate branding (Thanks CKS:Dev Team)
- Custom Site Settings Action to choose one of three colour schemes (Green, Blue & Red)
If you would please leave me comments be it positive or negative they are all welcome. I hope you enjoy and if you come across any bugs please let me know and i can fix them.
Download
To download the wsp please click here and get it from our CodePlex Site. Enjoy 
Wow this is great man! I only have one complaint and that is the top bar (where site actions resides). Is there anyway to hide it but still retain the functionality? I think it would look a lot cleaner without it.
How do you mean by hide the ribbon? completelty from view and then make it appear and hide?
Yes exactly! I’ve found some solutions on google, however I’m having some problems implementing them. What would your recommendation be?
Sorry to spam your comment section, but i found this and its exactly what i wanted/needed
http://zsshowhideribbon.codeplex.com/
Hi christopher
Thank you for this masterpage. It’s great.
Do you have a minimal.master page on your roadmap?
Regards Michael
I normally start with the Starter Masterpages that Randy Disgril created. http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com/ Do you have any specific requirement for functionality?
Chris
Chris,
Thanks for the awesome solution.
One thing I observed was that the top navigation bar does not show the drop down menu to display sub sites on a site created of a blog template even if it has sub sites. It works for sites based on other templates.
Will it be possible to email/host the Visual Studio project files so that any one can make it even better?
Once again, great work.
Also, the search page and results page gets broken on applying the template. I was able to fix it by using the Master page adapter available on codeplex–> http://sp2010searchadapters.codeplex.com/
Great page, but (these Germans …) (and Frech people too) want Umlaute and accents also in headlines. Where can we get them from? I scanned LifeInSharePoint.master but couldn’t find a clue.
The font was created using Cufon font replacement.
http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
I will try to get an updated font file created and update the deployment file.
Thanks
Great master page design. Just a quick question, how can I add new color theme say example Grey?
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been tasked with making a metro intranet on SharePoint and this saved me hours of work. Really appreciate it!
hi Christopher,
Great work ! keep it up
Thank you very much
Hi Chris,
Really sweet theme! Thanks a lot!
There’s one bug that I couldn’t work around though. Using your theme kills the “intellisense” linking in the Wiki pages. Don’t know if someone else has noticed this yet…
Thanks for pointing this out. I will definitely look into this
Can you please let me know which version of the masterpage you are using?
Thanks
I have just done a local test and i cannot replicate this at my end. I have deployed the farm solution (not sandbox) and i can in a Team Site create a new page using [[new page]] and it will create and link no problems.
Any information you can give me would be great.
Hi Chris,
Sorry, I was a bit vague with the description. The page creation with the double brackets works fine with your theme, but when I have your theme deployed and activated, I can’t get the “intellisense” context menu with the site contents to show up after typing just the initial two brackets (or using ctrl + space). If I deactivate your theme, the context menu works as it should.
Ok..Thanks for the clarification. I will look at this shortly.
Hi Henri,
I have managed to find the issue to the problem and i will be releasing an update to the solution shortly. Thank you for finding this bug
No problem Chris. Thanks a lot for taking the time to fix this…