Building a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site: Real World in Action

2. Building a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site: Real World in Action • Andrew Connell, MVP • Author, Instructor and Founder • Critical Path Training

3. IntroductionWho are we? • Andrew Connell • MVP Office SharePoint Server • Co-founder, Critical Path Training • SharePoint Master Certification Author / Instructor • www.andrewconnell.com/blog • Spencer Harbar • MVP Office SharePoint Server • Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 • Microsoft Certified Master Instructor • www.harbar.net

4. AgendaWhat is this session all about? • Information Architecture / Site Structure • Moving from mockups and comps to designs • Implementing and customizing navigation • Aggregating and rolling up content • Structured SharePoint development • Performance considerations

5. Information Arch / Site StructureHow to organize and plan your site • Planning the organization of site content (site taxonomy) • Group anonymous and secured resources separately • Enables easier and more effective page caching • Plan for variations • Implementing after the fact is very challenging • Plan for content deployment

6. Sample Site Structure Home • Ensure that the structure of a site groups like-secured objects together • Anonymous resources should be in one section • Protected resources should be in a different sections • Do not assume throwing all secured objects on one group will be performant /Products /AboutUs /Members /History /ContactUs /Downloads

7. Implementing Custom Navigation • Site map navigation provider • Retrieves navigation structure of site from SharePoint • Site map data source • Applies filtering to site map provider data • Navigation control • Renders navigation data from site map data source • Publishing site navigation customizations • Manual sorting • Ad hoc links

8. demo Implementing Site UI from Design

9. Aggregating and Rolling up Content • Common task in content-centric sites is to show listings of content throughout a site • Press releases • Articles • Products • Publishing sites include two useful Web Parts • Content query web part • Table of contents web part

10. demo Implementing and Customizing the Content Query Web Part

11. Structured SharePoint Development • Publishing site implementation options: • Customization • Customized approach using SharePoint Designer 2007 and the browser • Development • Uncustomized approach working at the file system level • Each has advantages and disadvantages

12. Typical Site Development • Infrastructure assets • Create site column and content types via browser • Layout assets • Create master pages and pagelayouts with SharePoint Designer 2007 • Modify look and feel by adding CSS and imagesusing SharePoint Designer 2007

13. "Big Picture" Challenges • How do you make this development process repeatable? How to automate it? • What about source control? • SharePoint has version control on lists and libraries • No version control for infrastructure assets • No version control for site pages and files • What about a true softwaredevelopment lifecycle process? • What about change management process?

14. SharePoint Customization • Advantages • Plenty of resources documenting the process • WYSIWYG developmentwith SharePoint Designer 2007 • Easily make changes in multiple environments • Disadvantages • Site columns and content types arenot easily moved between environments • Challenging to package and deploy • New files and changes to existing files • Multiple environments

15. Challenges in Creating Publishing Sites • Publishing sites exacerbate the challenges • All projects require sharing assets • Between developers on project team • Between environments (Dev / QA / UAT / Prod) • How to move asset change to other environments? • Manually move infrastructure and layout assets • Backup / restore (*** bad badbad option! ***) • Content deployment • Does not promote code reuse!

16. SharePoint Development • Advantages • Developers stay in Visual Studio • Layout files stay uncustomized on the server • Easy to package changes • Easier to utilize SCM and adhere to ALM • Disadvantages • SharePoint Features are tedious to build • No visual designer (lots of CAML) • Minimal debugging support • Provisioning files requires double development • Current tools do not promote this approach

17. demo Walkthrough on Structured SharePoint Site Development

18. Performance Considerations • Understand how the SharePoint API works • Disposing objects • Accessing data and facilitating large lists • Enable and Tune Caching • Page Output, Object, BLOB Caching • Minimize the page payload • IIS HTTP Compression (static & dynamic) • More in OFC401 – High Performance Office SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites

19. SummaryWhat did we learn? • Information Architecture / Site Structure • Moving from mockups and comps to designs • Implementing and customizing navigation • Aggregating and rolling up content • Structured SharePoint development • Performance considerations

20. question & answer

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22. Required Slide Track PMs will supply the content for this slide, which will be inserted during the final scrub. Track Resources Spin the Wheel: Attend SharePoint breakout sessions Mon-Thurs and collect the picture of the day. Come by the booth for a chance to spin the SharePoint wheel. Collect all 4 pictures and enter to win a Microsoft Arc Mouse, drawing 11:30am on Friday, game cards at the booth. Product Info http://www.microsoft.com/SharePoint Dev Resources SharePoint MSDN Web Site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint SharePoint Developer Resources: http://mssharepointdeveloper.com/ • SharePoint Conference 2009www.mssharepointconference.com ITPro Resources SharePoint Tech Center:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/ SharePoint Best Practices:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx

23. Collect the SharePoint Session Picture of the Day Attend any SharePoint Breakout Session day 1 – 4 and check the last slide for a daily picture. Come to the TLC yellow area, SharePoint booths OFC 4 & 5 to spin the wheel for a chance to win a prize. The wheel only spins when the SharePoint spotlight is flashing. One spin per person. Collect all four daily SharePoint pictures and enter to win a Microsoft ARC Mouse. Game cards can be picked up at the booth. Drawing for Mice on Friday at the wheel at 11:30AM. Tuesday’s Picture is: Walk of Fame Star Attend an Interactive Theater Session and enter to win a Microsoft ARC Mouse

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