How to customize the master page in SharePoint 2013

Customization is a broad topic but would like to share some basics so that we can do some exploration initially and become expertise by means of hands-on. There are so many ways by which you can do the customization's like SharePoint designer, Visual studio etc.

In this article, we will check the SPD option i.e. SharePoint Designer.

We will see a simple example i.e. customize the master page so that every page in a site displays a custom footer.

Here are the details-

1.   Open the SharePoint 2013 site in SharePoint Designer 2013

2.   Find the .html page that corresponds to your master page

3.   Edit in advance mode

4.   Add the following HTML right before the end of the workspace div, last one before the end of body tag

© Welcome to My Site

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013.