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.

Course Objective: You will use Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007 to create and modify a SharePoint site.

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: Level 2

• Cascading Style Sheets (Third Edition)

 

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Performance-Based 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 Content

Lesson 1: Getting Started with the SharePoint Designer Environment
Topic 1A: Explore the SharePoint Designer Interface
Topic 1B: Customize the SharePoint Designer Interface
Topic 1C: Get Help in SharePoint Designer
Lesson 2: Creating a Subsite
Topic 2A: Create a Page Layout
Topic 2B: Create a Master Page
Topic 2C: Modify a Page Layout
Lesson 3: Adding Content to the Site
Topic 3A: Add and Format Text
Topic 3B: Work with Tables
Topic 3C: Work with Images
Lesson 4: Working with Cascading Style Sheets
Topic 4A: Introduction to CSS
Topic 4B: Create an External Style Sheet
Topic 4C: Create Internal Styles
Topic 4D: Modify External Style Sheets

Lesson 5: Adding Basic Functionality to Web Pages
Topic 5A: Add Hyperlinks
Topic 5B: Create a Hotspot
Topic 5C: Add Bookmark Links
Topic 5D: Add an Interactive Button
Topic 5E: Open a Page in a New Browser Window
Lesson 6: Adding SharePoint Components to the Site
Topic 6A: Add Lists and Libraries to a Site
Topic 6B: Work with Web Parts
Topic 6C: Add a Link Bar              
Topic 6D: Enhance the Navigation Structure
Lesson 7: Automating Business Processes with Workflows
Topic 7A: Create a Workflow
Topic 7B: Modify a Workflow