Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007

Course Specifications

Software: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
Course length: 2.0 day(s)

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.

Target Student: 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.

Prerequisites: Students should have taken the following:

Delivery Method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

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.
  • work with ASP.NET forms.
  • work with Data Sources.
  • use SharePoint templates to update existing sites and create new templates from these changes.
  • learn some advanced data integration techniques.
  • customize existing workflows.
  • learn about administration tools in SharePoint Designer 2007.

Course Content

Day 1

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

Day 2

Lesson 1: Working with ASP.NET Forms
Topic 1A: Create an ASP.NET Form
Topic 1B: Modify Form Control Properties
Topic 1C: Validate Inputs
Topic 1D: Customize an Interactive Button

Lesson 2: Integrate Data Sources
Topic 2A: Implementing Data Sources and Displaying Data in Data Views
Topic 2B: Access a Data Source
Topic 2C: Import Data into a Data View
Topic 2D: Update the Data View Presentation
Topic 2E: Work with the Data View Commands

Lesson 3: Using SharePoint Site Templates
Topic 3A: Open an Existing Subsite and Create a New Web Page from an Existing Template
Topic 3B: Save a Customized Page
Topic 3C: Revert a Customized Page
Topic 3D: Save a Customized Site as a SharePoint Site Template

Lesson 4: Advanced Data Integration Using SharePoint Designer 2007
Topic 4A: Move Data View Web Parts to Different Web Part Zones
Topic 4B: Displaying Data from a Linked Data Source in a Data View
Topic 4C: Reference and Consume a Web Service
Topic 4D: Display XML Data with XSLT

Lesson 5: Update Workflows Using SharePoint Designer 2007
Topic 5A: Opening and Modifying an Existing Workflow
Topic 5B: Deploy and Test the Custom Workflow

Lesson 6: Administering a SharePoint Site Using SharePoint Designer 2007
Topic 6A: Configure Contributor Settings
Topic 6B: Generate Usability Reports
Topic 6C: Optimize the HTML for a SharePoint Site
Topic 6D: Spell Check a SharePoint Site
Topic 6E: Back Up and Restore a SharePoint Site
Topic 6F: Migrating a SharePoint Site