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Branding and Customizing Sites with SharePoint Designer 2007: Hands-On

 
Course: 953   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Design and maintain the look and feel of your site with SharePoint Designer
  • Integrate ASP.NET and SharePoint design and layout controls
  • Apply Cascading Style Sheets within SharePoint site structure
  • Customize SharePoint sites to improve accessibility compliance
  • Implement Cascading Style Sheets, Themes and Master Pages for overall consistency
  • Leverage content management features in a SharePoint server publishing site

Course Benefits

Internet and intranet sites need to adhere to an organization's corporate identity standards to reinforce their brand. Harnessing the power of SharePoint Designer allows you to efficiently tailor SharePoint sites to meet your organization's needs. In this course, you learn how to employ Cascading Style Sheets, Themes, and Master Pages to effectively reflect your company's brand.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to brand SharePoint sites, leveraging the powerful tools within SharePoint Designer. Familiarity with HTML and Web layout design is assumed. A basic knowledge of Windows SharePoint Services is beneficial. Additional experience with Web layout tools, such as FrontPage, Expression Web or Dreamweaver, is helpful.

Hands-On Training

Throughout this course, you gain extensive hands-on experience using SharePoint Designer to create customized pages. Practical exercises include:
  • Building HTML content with SharePoint Designer
  • Integrating ASP.NET and SharePoint controls
  • Creating and implementing custom style sheets
  • Addressing accessibility in SharePoint
  • Branding with Themes and Master Pages
  • Managing the CSS and Master Page life cycle
  • Deploying Minimal Master Pages to control layout
  • Customizing page layouts in a MOSS publishing site

Related Courses

 
SharePoint is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 		 

Training Dates

Live online classroom training.Participate in person or in live, online events (highlighted) via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.

US Dates

Mar 14 - 16Alexandria, VA
Apr 3 - 5Rockville, MD
May 2 - 4Reston, VA
May 23 - 25New York 
Jul 18 - 20Reston, VA
Aug 1 - 3Rockville, MD
Sep 12 - 14New York 
Oct 10 - 12Reston, VA
Dec 12 - 14Rockville, MD

For AnyWare enrolments, please register at least 10 days prior to the start of the course.


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PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH EDUCATION®
 

Branding and Customizing Sites with SharePoint Designer 2007: Hands-On

 
Course: 953   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 953 Content
 

SharePoint Architecture for Designers

  • Identifying SharePoint structure
  • Defining sites and subsites
  • Comparing SharePoint development tools

Harnessing the Power of SharePoint Designer

Navigating the interface

  • Tool bars
  • Menus
  • Task panes
  • Customizing with preferences and task pane layouts

Building static pages

  • Adding and modifying Web content
  • Incorporating tables, images and multimedia components

Leveraging Web Design Concepts

Migrating from other WYSIWYG editors

  • Comparing and contrasting functionality
  • Dreamweaver
  • Expression Web and FrontPage

Identifying the role of SharePoint Designer

  • Building SharePoint and ASP.NET pages
  • Applying ASP.NET and SharePoint controls

Exploring Web Parts

  • Contrasting browser-based Web Part deployment with SharePoint Designer
  • Installing and utilizing commercial components

Applying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Defining CSS structure

  • Comparing inline, embedded, and external styles
  • Styling HTML elements

Examining Core.css and the 12 Hive

  • Investigating CSS functionality in SharePoint
  • Applying browser-based tools to locate and modify CSS

Adding custom styles

  • Creating and employing a custom style sheet
  • Taking advantage of the CSS Cascade
  • Overriding Core.css

Complying with Accessibility Guidelines

Identifying Internet standards

  • Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  • Section 508E
  • Disability Discrimination Act

Addressing accessibility in SharePoint

  • Installing CSS-friendly control adapters
  • Integrating the accessibility toolkit

Incorporating Themes and Master Pages

Transforming color schemes

  • Selecting default Themes
  • Composing new Themes

Investigating Master Pages

  • Analyzing page structure
  • Identifying content regions
  • Choosing Master Pages in the browser

Exploiting Master Pages

  • Merging content pages and Master Pages
  • Deploying Microsoft Master Page Set

Creating additional Master Pages

  • Determining required default place holders
  • Establishing page layout/structure

Branding SharePoint Sites for Consistent Look and Feel

Combining Master Pages and CSS techniques

  • Differentiating CSS from Master Page styles
  • Integrating custom styles in Master Pages

Managing the CSS/Master Page life cycle

  • Deploying customized Master Pages
  • Storing CSS in document libraries
  • Benefiting from version control and content approval

Implementing Advanced Site Design

Extending SharePoint Designer capabilities

  • Delineating between application and site pages
  • Customizing application Master Pages
  • Leveraging a Minimal Master Page

Examining Master Page deployment

  • Implementing in stages with SharePoint Designer
  • Developing strategies for large-scale deployment

Controlling MOSS Publishing Server Sites

Differentiating publishing sites from collaboration sites

  • Controlling the MOSS content management features
  • Creating page layouts with SharePoint Designer

Deploying customized SharePoint content

  • Harnessing the power of features and solutions
  • Saving sites as templates
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Branding and Customizing Sites with SharePoint Designer 2007: Hands-On Tuition

 
Course: 953   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course Tuition
$ 2,695Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 2,2952-Course Passport
$ 1,8353-Course Passport
$ 1,7604-Course Passport
$ 2,950Voucher 5-Pack
$ 2,370Government Discount

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

2-Course Passport
  • 2 Courses in 12 months for $4,590
  • As little as $2,295 per course
  • Savings up to 35% per course
3-Course Passport
  • 3 Courses in 24 months for $5,500
  • As little as $1,835 per course
  • Savings up to 50% per course
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  • 4 Courses in 24 months for $7,035
  • As little as $1,760 per course
  • Savings up to 50% per course
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  • Save as much as $1,080 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,895 per course
Exact savings may vary depending on courses selected.

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Enrol by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrolment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
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