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Title: SharePoint 2007 Site Design, Customization and Branding
Duration: 2 Days (18 hours) for the public class, syllabus and duration customizable for onsite class
Hands On Lab: Aivea provided MOSS 2007 Development Virtual Machine Infrastructure

This course is for Designers, Business Analysts, IT Managers, System Administrators, Site Administrators and Developers who will be responsible for customizing and branding SharePoint 2007 portals and sites.

SharePoint 2007 Architecture and Design for Customization and Branding

Understand SharePoint Server 2007 platform architecture from a site design and branding standpoint.

• Microsoft SharePoint 2007 customization architecture (XHTML, CSS, CAML, XSLT etc.) overview
• SharePoint Services Master Pages
• SharePoint Page Layout and Content Placeholders
• SharePoint Web Content Management

Information Architecture, Site Design and Usability

One of the most fundamental site design elements in a successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation is the underlying information architecture. Information architecture provides a common, well-understood framework for the arrangement of data, graphics and interactions. A well-considered information architecture includes how data will be structured and divided, as well as how it will be presented to and navigated by users. In this session, we will review some key implementation motivators, architectural concepts, and lessons learned from some of the larger, more complex implementations

• Overview of the enterprise information architecture and topology
• Site Navigation and Search best practices for Information Architecture
• Business Process Modeling and Information Mapping
• Wire framing and Visual Design for Information Architecture
• How to gather all ideas and pain points and then organize and prioritize the finding to come up with a site design and brand SharePoint
• Navigational Architecture: Work interactively with the team to experiment with, and then finalize, the site navigation.
• Site documentation: Show the site hierarchy with all libraries, lists and content types

SharePoint Designer 2007 Overview

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is designed to integrate itself in the Microsoft SharePoint products and services as the core customization and composite application tool and responds to the needs of Information Workers. Extend your sites and portals by building advanced interactive ASP.NET pages. Insert and edit controls with the same powerful activity menus and control property grid previously found only in development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio

• Create/edit SharePoint master pages
• Create/edit layout pages
• Discuss the SharePoint 12 Hive
• Create/edit cascading style sheets
• Use IntelliSense for both code and style sheets
• Pages document library and support check out, check in and version control
• Create custom no-code workflows in SharePoint Designer
• Author Web standards compliant code and test for compliance (XHTML etc.)

Using Site Columns, Content Types and Features for Branding

Architected properly and implemented efficiently following the best practices, content types will successfully fuel your MOSS 2007 implementation for the future. Done correctly and thoughtfully, content types positively impact security, consistency, organization of data, business intelligence, where and how data surfaces, templates, workflow, information policies. Learn how to create, administrate, and implement content types and features following best practices for excellent site design

• Site map, Site hierarchy, Browser compatibility, Navigation (persistent and context sensitive) , Site columns Content types, Custom lists, Branding requirements
• Understand what content types and Features are and how you can use them to add functionality to your SharePoint deployment following best practices
• Create and deploy site columns, content types throughout sites and site collections in an enterprise deployment
• Leverage content types for enhancing site design, information architecture and taxonomy through SharePoint sites and lists.
• Create and deploy Features to add additional functionality to move branding changes from Development to Test to Production.

SharePoint Site Templates and Themes

This section discusses the various site templates that ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This module not only illustrates each template, but it also explains how each template is connected to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 features and offers best practices on when to use each template.

• Various types of templates that are provided out-of-the-box with SharePoint Server 2007.
• What is included in the templates.
• Where you will use the various types of templates.
• How to create custom templates for branding and consistency
• Hot to create custom themes

Web Authoring and Publishing

Web Content Management (Publishing) is a new capability added to SharePoint in the 2007 release. Following in the footsteps of Content Management Server 2002 the WCM capabilities of SharePoint offer a variety of customization opportunities for the developer or designer. But as with most new technologies it has taken time for Best Practices to emerge. In this session we’ll discuss customization Best Practices in the areas of branding, accessibility, field controls, layout pages, workflow, document conversion, and deployment. Along the way we’ll also suggest some guidelines for when to use SharePoint Designer and when to use Visual Studio to complete those customizations.

• MOSS 2007 Web Content Management Overview
• Solutions provided by Web Content Management features of SharePoint
• Web authoring for Extranets and Internet Web Portals
• Content caching, Rich Content Editor Web Part, Content Approvals and Routing

SharePoint Web Parts

In addition to discussing the Web Parts that ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, this module goes over how to install and configure individual Web Parts and the best practices on using and deploying them including custom web parts and 3rd party web parts.

• Web Part Design Web Part Pages and Web Part Zones
• Introduction to Web Part Galleries
• Create Lists, Libraries, and Associated Web Parts in Workspace Sites
• Modify Web Part Settings
• Available OOB Web Parts
• Customize and Personalize Web Parts
• Connect Web Parts

The Everything SharePoint Branding and Customization Hands-On Project

Let’s put everything that you have learned during the previous sessions and hands-on labs into a real-world like project for branding and customizing SharePoint site using SharePoint Designer.

• The project work is 100% hands-on lab taking simple HTML, Graphics and a visual design for about 6 hours working with the instructor 1:1 to create a branded SharePoint site. At the end of the project, you will be equipped to create a real-world branded SharePoint site from that has a unique look & feel.
• The instructor will also discuss the best practices to move the branded site from development to test to production servers using SharePoint features.

Aivea SharePoint Training courses are trusted by hundreds of organizations and professionals since 2004. The quality and return on investment from our SharePoint training is unparalleled to any other in the industry. We provide SharePoint Training for some of the most respected organizations in the country.

Please contact an Aivea SharePoint 2007 Training Sales Professional at sales@aivea.com or call 1-800-779-7506  to Register or to get a no obligation needs assessment and proposal for your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 training needs.