You've created intranet sites using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. There will be times when you would want to build sites that lay emphasis on your company's unique requirements and sites that align themselves with the company's unique brand identity. In this 2-day, hands-on course, you will use Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 to customize your SharePoint sites and build a new subsite on the SharePoint services platform.
Target Audience: This course is intended for SharePoint web designers and SharePoint solution developers, who want to learn to customize SharePoint sites by enhancing the look and feel of a SharePoint site and also to create dynamic pages using Web Parts and workflows.
In this course, you will:
- familiarize yourself with the SharePoint Designer environment
- create a new subsite
- add content to a web page
- use Cascading Style Sheets to format a SharePoint site
- add basic functionality to web pages
- add SharePoint components to the site
- automate business processes with workflows
- work with ASP.NET forms
- work with Data Sources
- use SharePoint templates to update existing sites and create new templates
- learn some advanced data integration techniques
- learn about administration tools in SharePoint Designer 2007
Getting Started with the SharePoint Designer Environment
- Explore the SharePoint Designer Interface
- Customize the SharePoint Designer Interface
- Get Help in SharePoint Designer
Creating a Subsite
- Create a Page Layout
- Create a Master Page
- Modify a Page Layout
Adding Content to the Site
- Add and Format Text
- Work with Tables
- Work with Images
Working with Cascading Style Sheets
- Introduction to CSS
- Create an External Style Sheet
- Create Internal Styles
- Modify External Style Sheets
Adding Basic Functionality to Web Pages
- Add Hyperlinks
- Create a Hotspot
- Add Bookmark Links
- Add an Interactive Button
- Open a Page in a New Browser Window
Adding SharePoint Components to the Site
- Add Lists and Libraries to a Site
- Work with Web Parts
- Add a Link Bar
- Enhance the Navigation Structure
Automating Business Processes with Workflows
- Create a Workflow
- Modify a Workflow
Working with ASP.NET Forms
- Create an ASP.NET Form
- Modify Form Control Properties
- Validate Inputs
- Customize an Interactive Button
Integrate Data Sources
- Implementing Data Sources and Displaying Data in Data Views
- Access a Data Source
- Import Data into a Data View
- Update the Data View Presentation
- Work with the Data View Commands
Using SharePoint Site Templates
- Open an Existing Subsite and Create a New Web Page from an Existing Template
- Save a Customized Page
- Revert a Customized Page
- Save a Customized Site as a SharePoint Site Template
Advanced Data Integration Using SharePoint Designer 2007
- Move Data View Web Parts to Different Web Part Zones
- Displaying Data from a Linked Data Source in a Data View
- Reference and Consume a Web Service
- Display XML Data with XSLT
Administering a SharePoint Site Using SharePoint Designer 2007
- Configure Contributor Settings
- Generate Usability Reports
- Optimize the HTML for a SharePoint Site
- Spell Check a SharePoint Site
- Back Up and Restore a SharePoint Site
- Migrating a SharePoint Site
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