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Anatomy of a SharePoint website

Anatomy of a SharePoint website. Ben Robb MVP, SharePoint cScape Ltd. Agenda. HedKandi Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 WCM features Platform Branding Editing experience Content Aggregation and reuse User generated content Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint. Ministry of Sound.

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Anatomy of a SharePoint website

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  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?

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