SharePoint for Web Designers
SHAREPOINT PORTAL SERVER 2003
$2,400 4 days Advanced Level

SharePoint for Web Designers is designed for webmasters, designers and graphics professionals. The course consists of both lecture and accompanying lab time. Broad areas covered include site templates, cascading style sheets, themes and JavaScript.

Target Audience:

 

This course is designed for webmasters, designers and graphic professionals.

Prerequisites:

 
SharePoint for Web Designers or a similar course is required for this course. This is not an introductory course and students require basic competence with SharePoint.

At the end of this course the student will be able to ...

 

• Brand a SharePoint Portal Server to your organization
• Customize the SharePoint Portal Server to your organization
• Implement cascading style sheets
• Create site definitions, templates and themes

Course Outline:  
Module 1: Introduction to SharePoint Portal

This module provides and introduction to Windows SharePoint Services Server and discusses some base terminology that will be used throughout the course

• SPS vs. WSS
• Licensing
• Portal terminology
• WSS Terminology
• Hive60

Module 2: Cascading Style Sheets

This module discusses CSS.

• CSS is defined
• CSS “crash course” for SharePoint
• SharePoint CSS files
• Common SharePoint CSS classes
• SharePoint Portal Server CSS classes
• MySite CSS classes
• Common SharePoint CSS quirks

Module 3: Themes

This module discusses SharePoint themes.

• Create new themes
• Best practices when designing new themes

Module 4: Site Templates

This module discusses site templates.

• Deploying to a farm
• Methods of creation

Module 5: Site Definitions

This module discusses site definitions.

• Ghosting
• Document templates
• Web part page customizations
• Onet.xml
     • Navigation Bars
     • Modules
     • Configurations

Module 6: Data View Web Part

This module provides an overview of the Data View Web Part.

• SharePoint data source
• Database data source
• Web service data source
• XML data source
• Formatting
• Ghosting
• Basic and advanced connections

Module 7: Client Side Scripting

This module provides an overview of client side scripting in SharePoint.

• JavaScript crash course
• JavaScript cascade
• Common JavaScript functions