Ardito Computer Training

Course Description

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.

Prerequisites

Students should have taken the Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0: Level 1 course from Element K or have an equivalent knowledge.

Recommended, though not required, are the following courses:

• Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Introduction
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Who Should Take This Course

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.

Course 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.

Course Outline

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