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S-628 -
2 days -
Instructor-led (classroom)
Branding and Customizing SharePoint 2007 using SharePoint Designer
Price: 990
Table of Contents
Introduction
Audience
Prerequisites
Microsoft Certified Professional
Exams
Student Materials
Course Outline
Introduction
This two-day instructor-led course will provide you with the skills, tips and tricks to quickly make a SharePoint site Your Site. You will see how to customize navigation, themes, and master pages. This class covers browser based customization, SharePoint Designer customizations and introduces what can be done by developers. This class will cover both those things you can change as a site owner without access to server files, and how to optionally deploy your customizations to the server. This class does not explore workflows, .Net coding or XSL transforms (except for a demo or two).
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Audience
Graphic Designers, Site Owners, Developers, and others who are responsible for customizing SharePoint sites.
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Prerequisites
Before attending this course students need:
- A strong background in SharePoint 2007 is needed as both an end user and a site collection administrator
- To know how to create subsites, create custom lists, add custom columns and create views
- To have basic skills in both HTML and CSS are needed and JavaScript skills are useful
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Microsoft Certified Professional Exams
There are no Microsoft Certified Professional Exams for this class.
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Student Materials
The student kit includes a comprehensive
workbook and other necessary materials for this class.
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Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of SharePoint Customization
Why Do You Customize?
- Site Branding / Look and Feel
- Display non-SharePoint data
- Incorporate Custom ASPX Pages
Customization Options
- Browser based customization from within SharePoint
- Custom Web parts
- Custom ASPX Pages
- �Pluggable� Features
- SharePoint Designer
Who Will Do the Customization?
- Graphic Designers
- Site Owners
- Developers
Customization Decisions
- Custom Master Pages or Themes
- Single Site or All Sites
- Live vs. Test and then Deploy
Module 2: SharePoint Structure and Customization Points
Themes
Master Pages and Content Pages
Data from Lists
Cascading Style Sheets
Module 3: Out of the Box, Browser Based Customization
Title, logo
Themes
Master Pages
Module 4: SharePoint Designer
Opening a Site or single file
Overview of Tools and Panels
The �Revert� Command!
Module 5: A Review of HTML, DHTML and CSS
HTML (and a note on standards and compliance)
DHTML
CSS
Inline CSS vs. Linking CSS Files
Module 6: Creating SharePoint Themes
Themes vs. Master Pages
An Exploration of Theme-able Items
Basic CSS
Theme Files
Creating and Testing a Theme
Module 7: Master Pages
Overview of Master Pages
Modifying Web Part Zones
Moving and Hiding Out of the Box Components (navigation, etc)
Embedding vs. Linking CSS
Module 8: Customizing Content Pages
List Maintenance Pages
Basic Pages
Web Part Pages
Custom ASPX pages
Module 9: Customizing Menus
Quick Menu Tricks
Adding Custom Menus
Module 10: SharePoint and ASPX Controls
Navigation Controls
Tab bar customization
Quick Launch customization
Module 11: Data Views
Exposing Data via Web Parts
SharePoint Data
External Data
Module 12: Customizing the User�s Search Experience (may be an optional module)
Adding Advanced Search to non-Publishing Pages
Custom Search Results Pages
Module 13: Deploying Customizations (may be added to the end of each module)
Deploy to Where?
Themes
Images
Custom Lists and Columns
Web Parts
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