Anatomy of a SharePoint website

1. Anatomy of a SharePoint website Ben Robb MVP, SharePoint cScape Ltd

2. Agenda • HedKandi • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 WCM features • Platform • Branding • Editing experience • Content Aggregation and reuse • User generated content • Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint

3. Ministry of Sound • Ministry of Sound is the world’s largest independent record label • Based in London, UK • Clubs throughout the world • London, Singapore, New Delhi • Over 2000 Events across the globe / year

4. HedKandi • Subsidiary of Ministry of Sound • House music and lifestyle brand • Definite character, lead by artwork

5. Project drivers • Pathfinder for SharePoint rollout within Ministry of Sound – both internal and external sites • Pixel perfect design requirements • “Web 2.0” features • User Generated Content • Mixed media content • 8 week project • 2 developers, 1 project manager • Launching on beta version of SharePoint

6. Why SharePoint • Client had prior experience with MCMS 2002 • Good fit between requirements and SharePoint feature set: • Next-generation web content management • Search • Blogs • User Generated Content • Ready for future site requirements • Forms, back-end integration • Internal document management

7. WCM in SharePoint Server 2007 • Fully featured web content management solution • Built on Microsoft SharePoint technology • Part of a common platform for building intranets, extranets and public facing websites

8. Technical foundation • Built on Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS • Built on ASP.NET • Master pages and page layouts • Web Parts • Implements Membership and Roles provider model • Uses Windows Workflow Foundation • Seamlessly integrates with other SharePoint features

9. Branding control • Structured and semi-structured content • Flexibility • Enforcement • No limits for designers’ creativity

10. Brand freedom in SharePoint 2007 demo

11. Editing experience • WYSIWYG editing experience • Controlled publishing • Version control • Approval workflows, scheduled deployments • Management tools • Reports

12. Editing experience in SharePoint 2007 demo

13. Content aggregation • RSS feeds • Content roll up controls • Automatic generation of navigation

14. Content aggregation WCM content WebPart WSS List + XSLT

15. Content aggregation ASP.net User Control consuming XML data returned from WSS Content Query

16. Content aggregation demo

17. User generated content • Data stored in SharePoint Lists • ASP.net Membership Provider

18. User generated content demo

19. Other features • Search • Document management • Records management • LOB integration • Business Intelligence

20. Moving forwards • Roll out SharePoint across the rest of Ministry of Sound’s online assets • Integrate with digital asset store • Make use of modern rich user experience techniques • Enhance both end-user experience and authoring environment

21. Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint announcing

22. SilverlightBluePrint • Project started September 2007 • Goals • Jumpstart for SharePoint developers • Focus is on how to integrate both worlds • Showcase of different techniques • Show possible usage scenarios of Silverlight in the world of SharePoint • http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint

23. Silverlight Samples • Getting Started • Hello Silverlight 1.0 & 2 Web Part • SilverlightPart • Consuming SharePoint data through native Web Services • MediaViewer Web Part • Consuming WCF Service exposing SharePoint data • Social Networking • Displaying Info out of Publishing Pages • Visual How-To Center • Enriching the Navigation in Portals • Navigation Control • Custom Field Type • Slider

24. Silverlight and SharePoint demo

25. Conclusions • SharePoint is a fully flexible WCM platform • SharePoint builds on core ASP.NET technologies • SharePoint can make use of new technologies such as Silverlight • Call to action: start using the SilverlightBluePrint for SharePointhttp://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint

26. Thank you • Any questions?