Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

Overview:

Learn the basic functions and features of SharePoint Designer 2007. Gain the skills you need to create and format web pages, including web site planning and creation and working with templates, cascading style sheets, hyperlinks, and tables. Learn how to work with images, format text, and edit HTML code. You will learn to add web components, including multimedia and interactive content, and you'll learn to work with layers, layout tables, forms, and data-driven pages.

Description:

1. Getting Started

• Internet basics: Discussing the web and HTML
• Identify components of the SharePoint Designer interface
• Make basic adjustments to Web pages
• Select elements

2. Web Sites

• Plan the design and structure of a site
• Create a new one-page web site
• Add folders and pages
• Create and edit a template
• Add a template to existing pages

3. Text Formatting

• Import content into a page from an external document
• Convert line breaks to paragraph breaks
• Insert non-breaking spaces and symbols
• Apply structural tags and create lists
• Work with Cascading Style Sheets

4. Web Page Layout

• Define content sections
• Create and apply ID style
• Apply margins, padding, and borders to an element
• Create a two-column layout
• Clear an element to prevent it from wrapping around a floated section

5. Images

• Discuss image file formats
• Adjust basic image properties
• Apply alternate text to an image
• Arrange images relative to adjacent content

6. Hyperlinks

• Create basic hyperlinks, link bars, e-mail links, and bookmarks
• Customize link styles
• Create image maps, and link hotspots to bookmarks

7. Tables

• Insert and format tables and table cells
• Insert and format rows and columns
• Create table captions
• Work with nested tables in a table-based layout

8. Publishing

• Check for spelling errors and broken hyperlinks throughout a site
• Identify options associated with publishing sites
• Connect to a server by using FTP

9. Web Components & Multimedia

• Create a dynamic date and time stamp
• Create a site map
• Insert Flash animations, Windows Media Player files, and QuickTime movies
• Set their display properties

10. Interactive Content

• Create basic rollovers
• Apply behaviors, specify the events and actions that comprise behaviors
• Create custom rollovers
• Apply the Swap Images behavior to create rollovers and disjoint rollovers

11. Layers

• Create layers and assign IDs
• Position layers, and control the stacking order of layers
• Set specific values to position a layer precisely
• Control layer visibility
• Create dynamic layers

12. Layout Tables

• Create layout tables and layout cells to build a page layout
• Draw layout cells
• Create a fluid layout
• Apply basic formatting options to layout tables and cells

13. Web Forms

• Create forms and insert and modify a variety of input fields
  Apply validation rules to text fields and option buttons
  Test the validations to verify their functionality

14. Data-Driven Pages

• Identify the functionality and advantages of dynamic web sites
• Discuss the basics of database connectivity and Web Parts
• Basic concepts regarding applications that can be created by using Web Parts
• Apply an XML data source to a web page

15. Site Management

• Apply basic search engine optimization
• Insert description and keyword meta tags
• Check for browser compatibility problems
• Apply the Check Browser behavior
• Remove unlinked files from a site
• Use the Accessibility pane to locate, understand, and fix accessibility problems

Audience:

Students who want to use SharePoint Designer to build web sites

Objectives:

• Components of the SharePoint Designer interface
• Plan the design and structure of a site, create a new site using a template, apply a template to existing pages
• Import content from an external document, apply structural tags, create an external style sheet, and establish element and class styles
• Define content sections, create and apply ID styles, adjust basic image properties, customize link styles, create image maps, and link hotspots to bookmarks
• Insert and format tables and table cells, insert and format rows and columns, and work with nested tables
• Insert Flash animations, Windows Media Player files, and QuickTime movies
• Work with rollovers and layers
• Understand the functionality of dynamic web sites, identify basic concepts regarding applications you can create by using Web Parts, and apply an XML data source
• Apply basic search engine optimization and use the Accessibility pane to resolve Accessibility problems