SharePoint Designer 2010-Customizing and Branding SharePoint

Empower your SharePoint customization skills with our SharePoint Designer 2010 course designed for site owners, administrators, and designers, ensuring seamless navigation and branding without the need for code.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand the tools and methods for SharePoint customization without code.

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Implement effective site administration using SharePoint Designer.

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Customize site navigation, themes, and master pages for brand consistency.

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Connect and display external data through Web Parts.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Site Owners
  • SharePoint Administrators
  • Graphics Designers
  • Developers

Description

This three-day instructor-ledcourse provides students with the knowledge and skills to quickly make a SharePoint site your SharePoint Site. While focused on SharePoint Designer, this class covers the SharePoint customization, in particular, customization that can be done without custom code or SharePoint server access. This includes browser based customization, SharePoint Designer customization, InfoPath form customization and the Data View and Content Editor web parts. Topics include how to customize navigation, themes, and master pages and how to get a start on branding. Also covered are how do customize the display of lists and libraries and how to connect data external to your site. Note: This class does not cover workflows.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: SharePoint Customization

  1. Who is this class for?

  2. Why Do You Customize?

  3. Customization Options

  4. Who Customizes?

  5. What about your SharePoint Governance Plan?

  6. SharePoint Customization Tools

  7. SharePoint Architecture

  8. Lab: Explore the lab environment

  9. Lab: Create a subsite

Module 2: A Review of Browser Based Customization

  1. Browser Based Customization - Look and Feel

  2. Title, Description and Icon

  3. Site Theme

  4. Navigation

  5. Top Link Bar and Quick Launch Navigation

  6. Links lists and other site navigation

  7. The Content Editor Web Part

  8. Lab: Changing the site title and icon

Module 3: SharePoint Designer Overview

  1. Overview

  2. Launching SharePoint Designer

  3. Opening a Site from Site Actions or the Ribbon

  4. Connecting to Remote Sites and Office 365

  5. SharePoint Designer Navigation

  6. Lab: Launching SharePoint Designer

Module 4: SharePoint Administration

  1. Creating lists and libraries and updating their settings

  2. Uploading, managing and deleting library files and folders

  3. Lab: Creating new lists and libraries

Module 5: How SharePoint uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

  1. How HTML is used in SharePoint

  2. Master Pages vs. Content Pages

  3. How JavaScript is used in SharePoint

  4. Tools to Explore HTML and CSS

  5. Lab: Adding Custom CSS to a Master Page

Module 6: How SharePoint Uses ASP.NET and SharePoint Controls

  1. HTML Controls

  2. ASP.NET Controls

  3. SharePoint Controls

  4. Lab: Using the ASP.NET AdRotator control

Module 7: Creating and Customizing Pages

  1. SharePoint Pages

  2. Creating SharePoint Wiki Pages

  3. Creating SharePoint Web Part Pages

  4. Lab: Creating SharePoint Publishing Pages

Module 8: Content Editor Web Part

  1. The Content Editor Web Part

  2. Using a Content Editor Web Part for Formatted Text

  3. Lab: Adding HTML, CSS and JavaScript using a Content Editor Web Part

Module 9: Customizing SharePoint Navigation

  1. Navigation in SharePoint

  2. The Quick Launch Area

  3. Tree View Customization

  4. Lab: Customizing Quick Launch

Module 10: SharePoint Master Pages and an Introduction to Branding

  1. Master Pages in SharePoint

  2. Branding

  3. Lab: Creating a New Master Page

Module 11: Data View Web Part - Creating Custom Views

  1. Data View Web Parts

  2. Editing Data View Web Part XSLT

  3. Lab: Create a Data View with custom XSLT

Module 12: Working with External Data

  1. Accessing External Data

  2. SharePoint Designer Data Sources

  3. Lab: Using Data Views for RSS Feeds

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