Starter Master Pages for SharePoint 2010. Master Page Error - Mohamed Derhalli's Blog. Starter Master Pages for SharePoint 2010 (Formerly Known as Minimal Master Pages) - Randy Drisgill SharePoint Branding Blog. In the tradition of those SharePoint branding folks that came before me, I have put together two minimal master pages that can be used to start a SharePoint 2010 Branding project.
They contain only very minimal HTML styling in order to accommodate some of the specific needs of SharePoint 2010 and are commented throughout. I hope you find them useful as a good starting point for creating branded SharePoint sites. If you make improvements upon them that could be used to improve the Starter Master Page experience for others, please share the changes with me so that I can potentially roll them into the main distribution.
Note: With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has actually included their own master page called minimal.master which has a specific use for pages that will have very minimal chrome. Because of this, I am using the term Starter Master Page for my Master Pages instead of the term Minimal Master Page.