Acknowledgments

• Information for Readers Running windows XP
• Managing the Practice Files
• Using the Start Menu
• Navigating Dialog Boxes
• Features and Conventions of This Book
• Using the Book's CD
• What’s on the CD?                                                                                                              
• Minimum System Requirements
• Installing the Practice Files
• Using the Practice Files
• Removing the Practice Files
• Using the .stp Site Templates
• Removing the .stp Site Templates
• Deleting a Practice Site

Course Outline

Module 1 Introducing SharePoint Designer

• Understanding SharePoint Designer
• Using SharePoint Designer to Carry Out Common Tasks
• Understanding windows SharePoint Services
• Exploring a SharePoint Site                                                                                   
• Understanding the Relationship Between windows SharePoint Services andSharePointServer2007
• Considering Complications of Upgrading customized SharePoint Sites
  

Module 2 working in SharePoint Designer

• Exploring the SharePoint Designer workspace
• Using Toolbars
• Using Task Panes
• Creating a SharePoint Site Hierarchy
• Sidebar: Publishing Site Templates
• Sidebar: Best Practices for Naming uRIS
• Deleting a SharePoint Site
  

Module 3 Customizing a Web Page

• Exploring a web Page
• Inserting Text, ScreenTips. and Hyperlinks
• Inserting web Components
• Inserting Images
• Adding client-Side Interactivity
• Creating a Table Layout
• Changing the Default Page for a web Site
• Resetting to a Site Definition
  

Module 4 Creating and Modifying Web Pages

• Creating a Basic Meeting workspace Site
• Creating a web Part Page by Using a Browser
• Creating anASP.NET Page
• Inserting web Part Zone
• Adding a web Part and Modifying Web Part Properties
• Attaching a Master Page
• Creating a web Page from a Master Page
• Deleting a web Page
  

Module 5 Working with Lists and Libraries

• Creating a List
• Sidebar: Content Types and Site Columns
• Creating a List View web Part
• Customizing a List view Web Part
• Modifying a Built-In List view Page
• Creating a List View Page
• Modifying a Built-In List Form Page
  

Module 6 working with Data Views

• Creating Data views
• Customizing Data Views
• Sidebar: An XML Primer
• Applying Conditional Formatting
• Using XSLT
• Allowing Insertions, Deletions, and Updates
• Using CAML
• Converting a List View web Part to a Data view Web Part
• Deploying web Parts

Module 7 Working with Data Sources

• Using the Data Source Library. .
• working with XML Data
• Connecting to an RSS Feed xML File
• Connecting to an RSS Feed Server-Side Script
• Connecting to an XML Web Service
• Using uinked Sources
• Displaying the Contents of a List on Another Site
• Connecting Web Parts

Module 8 Using Controls in Web Pages

• Inserting and Modifying Controls
• Using Standard ASP.NET Controls
• Using ASP.NET Validation Controls
• Using SharePoint Data View Controls
• Using SharePoint Server Controls

Module 9 Working with Master Pages

• Understanding Master Pages
• Customizing a Master Page
• Changing the Default Master Page
• Managing Content Placeholders and Content Regions                                                                
• Sidebar: Creating a Master Page
• Resetting a Master Page to the Site Definition

Module 10 Changing the Look and Feel of Pages by Using Cascading Style Sheets

• Understanding the CSS and Color-Coding Options                                                                  
• Sidebar: CSS Primer
• Identifying Styles in Cascading Style Sheets
• Creating, Modifying, and Deleting Styles
• Using the Style Application Toolbar
• Creating and Attaching CSS Files
• Understanding CSS Inheritance in SharePoint
• Using CSS Reports
  

Module 11 Managing Web Content in a SharePoint Server Environment

• Understanding Web Content Management Enhancements in SharePoint Server 2007
• Understand the Page Model
• Creating a Page Layout
• Modifying a Page Layout
• Restoring an Earlier Version of a Page Layout
• Detaching and Reattaching a Page Layout

 Module 12 Understanding Workflows

• Working with workflows
• Creating a workflow
• Sidebar: Comparing workflows by Using SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio 2005
• Using Conditions and Actions
• Verifying and Deploying a workflow
• Modifying a workflow
• Creating a Multi-Step Workflow
• Deleting aworkflolit

Module 13 Building a Windows SharePoint Services Application

• Customizing a Site
• Sidebar: Site Definitions, Features, and Solution Files Primer
• Creating a Site Template
• Exploring a Site Template
• Testing a Site Template Solution

Module 14 Managing SharePoint Sites

• Configuring Contributor Settings.
• Identifying Contributor Settings
• Creating Reports
• Backing Up and Restoring Sites
• Exporting and importing Sites
• Copying Lists and Libraries Between Sites
• Copying Documents Between sites

Module 15 Understanding Usability and Accessibility

• Understanding Usability Issues
• choosing Color Schemes
• Understanding Accessibility Standards and Legal Issues
• Sidebar: Introducing the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint
• Generating Accessibility Reports
• Generating Other SharePoint Designer Reports