SharePoint Designer 2007 Fundamentals
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Course Overview
  You will use Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and modify a SharePoint site. You will use SharePoint Designer to extend and customize existing SharePoint sites.

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 course, you will use Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 to customize your SharePoint sites and build a new subsite on the SharePoint services platform.

Now that you know how to create customized SharePoint sites matching your branding, you may want to extend your sites to include more functionality. With SharePoint Designer, you can extend your sites more easily than before.

Objectives
  Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • 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;
  • use SharePoint templates to update existing sites and create new templates from these
  • changes;
  • learn about administration tools in SharePoint Designer 2007.

This Course Includes:
  Six months of access to Online Learning Resources for the topics covered in your class. Online Learning Resources is a convenient, on-demand way of helping you retain what was taught in your class.

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.

Prerequisites
  Students should have taken the SharePoint 2007 Essentials course or have an equivalent knowledge.

Recommended, though not required, are the following courses:
  • SharePoint 2007 Effective Collaboration for Site Owners/Collection Administrators
  • Cascading Style Sheets
Course Number
  EKEUSPDF
Course Length
  2 Days

Course Price
  $1,100.00
Category
  2
Topics
  Lesson 1: Getting Started with the SharePoint Designer Environment
  • Explore the SharePoint Designer Interface
  • Customize the SharePoint Designer Interface
  • Get Help in SharePoint Designer
Lesson 2: Basic SharePoint HTML and CSS (Supplement)
  • Understanding HTML for use in SharePoint
  • Understanding CSS for use in SharePoint
Lesson 3: Creating a Subsite
  • Create a Page Layout
  • Create a Master Page
  • Modify a Page Layout
Lesson 4: Adding Content to the Site
  • Add and Format Text
  • Work with Tables
  • Work with Images
Lesson 5: Working with Cascading Style Sheets
  • Introduction to CSS
  • Create an External Style Sheet
  • Create Internal Styles
  • Modify External Style Sheets
Lesson 6: 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
Lesson 7: 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
Lesson 8: Automating Business Processes with Workflows
  • Create a Workflow
  • Modify a Workflow
Lesson 9: Working with ASP.NET Forms
  • Create an ASP.NET Form
  • Modify Form Control Properties
  • Validate Inputs
  • Customize an Interactive Button
Lesson 10: 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
Lesson 11: 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
Lesson 12: SharePoint Branding, Dashboard, and Workflow Overview (Supplement)
  • Branding
  • Dashboard
  • Workflow
*At the end of class the instructor will demonstrate additional SharePoint features around branding, dashboards and workflow. This content will not be included in the book and used primarily as a demonstration to students to help them fully understand the capabilities SharePoint and SharePoint Designer have in these areas.