SharePoint 2013 Site Settings for publishing

The below is the 2013 site settings, here let us discuss the features and changes in the web design and look and feel sections.

Web design gallaries

Composed looks is a new feature. It is a evolution of themes. Styles can easily defined from Composed Looks Gallery, then it can be selected from "Change the Look".

In the Look and Feel

Design Manager - create minimal master page or covert from existing design

Device Channels - allow users to have different site templates by user-agent substring match

Change the look - show the site with a preview.

 

Navigation - now it is easily to user terms store for the managed navigations and shown as friendly url. Also by enabling cross-site publishing, you can have a global navigation combined a site collections.

Image rendition - for images to have different versions of sizes bu not add up server storage space. It would be useful for mobile scenario.

*** The blob cache needs to be enabled, so the web.config needs to updated to make it enabled and the folder exists with right permission.
<BlobCache location="C:\BlobCache\14" path="\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|jpe|jfif|bmp|dib|tif|tiff|ico|png|wdp|hdp|css|js|asf|avi|flv|m4v|mov|mp3|mp4|mpeg|mpg|rm|rmvb|wma|wmv)quot; maxSize="10" enabled="true" />