You’ve created intranet sites using Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services. However, there will be times when you want to build sites that emphasize your company’s unique requirements and unique brand identity.

In this two-day, instructor-led course, you will use Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007 to customize your SharePoint sites and build a new subsite on the SharePoint services platform.

Audience:

• SharePoint web designers and SharePoint solution developers who want to learn to customize SharePoint sites by enhancing the look and feel and by creating dynamic pages using Web Parts and workflows.

Participants will learn 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
• Work with Data Sources
• Use SharePoint templates to update existing sites and create new templates from these changes
• Apply advanced data integration techniques
• Customize existing workflows
• Use administration tools in SharePoint Designer 2007

Course Content:

• 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: Creating a Subsite
• Create a Page Layout
• Create a Master Page
• Modify a Page Layout
• Lesson 3: Adding Content to the Site
• Add and Format Text
• Work with Tables
• Work with Images
• Lesson 4: Working with Cascading Style Sheets
• Introduction to CSS
• Create an External Style Sheet
• Create Internal Styles
• Modify External Style Sheets
• Lesson 5: 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 6: 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 7: Automating Business Processes with Workflows
• Create a Workflow
• Modify a Workflow
• Lesson 8: Working with ASP.NET Forms
• Create an ASP.NET Form
• Modify Form Control Properties
• Validate Inputs
• Customize an Interactive Button
• Lesson 9: 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
• 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: 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
• Lesson 12: Update Workflows Using SharePoint Designer 2007
• Opening and Modifying an Existing Workflow
• Deploy and Test the Custom Workflow
• Lesson 13: 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