Introduction to Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007

Objectives

This is a customised course to enable the effective use of Sharepoint Designer to create,edit and customise web and intranet pages. Principles of web design are covered along with essential HTML and CSS skills nereded for full control of documents in Sharepoint Designer.


Pre-requisites:

No experience is required of Sharepoint but knowledge of your operatiing system is useful.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Essential Concepts in Web Design


· How HTML, CSS and ther technologies fit together
· Site design best practice
· Planning your web project



Introduction to Sharepoint Designer


· Interface Basics
· Connecting to a site
· Options for viewing your document
· Editing features
· Customising Sharepoint Designer


Creating a new site


· Creating new pages
· Adding new web parts to your site
· Publishing options



Adding content


· Adding and Editing text
· Using Images
· Adding page elements
· Bulleted and Numbered Lists



Using Tables


· Inserting new tables
· Adding and removing rows and columns
· formatting a table
· Merging and splitting cells









Navigating yout site


· Creating hyperlinks
· Linking to external sites
· Linking to Office documents and PDF's
· Adding email links
· Linking from images
· Creating navigation tools


Using Cascading Style Sheets


· Benefits of CSS
· How CSS works
· Using Internal and External CSS
· css Inheritance and Cascade
· CSS Selectors: Tag, Class and ID
· Creating a Style Sheet
· Using ready-made CSS
· Customising your style Sheet


Page Layout


· How page layouts work
· Using ready made page layouts
· Working with the layout
· Customising layouts
· Creating new page layouts


Templates


· Creating a template
· Customising a template
· Exporting templates
· Creating a new site based on a template