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Putting your Landing Page on a Diet

Putting your Landing Page on a Diet. David C. Broussard Sr. Lead Consultant September 22 nd , 2009. SharePoint is a Chinese Buffet. Is This Your Landing Page?. Company News Industry News Departmental News Top Story of the Day Polls/Surveys Employee Birthdays

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Putting your Landing Page on a Diet

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  1. Putting your Landing Page on a Diet David C. Broussard Sr. Lead Consultant September 22nd, 2009

  2. SharePoint is a Chinese Buffet

  3. Is This Your Landing Page? • Company News • Industry News • Departmental News • Top Story of the Day • Polls/Surveys • Employee Birthdays • Employee Anniversaries • Photo of the Day • My Links • Employee Schedules • Employee Recognition • New Products/Services • I Need To… • Targeted Reports • Audience Dashboards • etc…

  4. The Promise is the Dilemma… Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists My Sites, social networking, privacy control, content targeting and aggregation, Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable Enterprise single sign-on Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, content aggregation, LDAP integration, composite applications

  5. Content versus Performance • Our desire is to be fast… • Our Landing Page is the most visible page in the entire site • We must optimize our Landing Page to load as quickly as possible • The Content Authors want it ALL on one page • They see the Landing Page as the first/only page they have to get their message to the users • Every department wants their content visible to as many users as possible…

  6. The Solution? • Put your Landing Page on a diet! • Identify the four “food” groups and limit your consumption of the bad ones • Framework • Publishing • Work • Bling

  7. Framework The foundation upon which we will build our page(s) • Primarily the Master Page • Use static HTML • Navigation (Contextual & Global) • Optimize for speed of load • Graphics • Web Parts • Server Controls • Don’t just hide unused areas • Start with a Minimal or Base Master Page

  8. Publishing • The key to our slim and lean landing page. • Use Publishing fields for content on the page • Encourage users to create publishing pages and use content query or search web parts to roll up content sourced from multiple locations

  9. Work • Content that let’s the user actually accomplish their daily jobs. • Reports • Dashboards • Issues lists • LOB Portals using Page Viewer, BDC, Custom Web Parts, etc. • Links to tools Difficult to implement due to reliance upon external systems. Use tools like Sonar (BinaryWave) to determine impact of web parts on your page.

  10. Bling • This is the stuff that Corporate Communications just has to have on the landing page. • SilverLight/Flash • Streaming Audio/Video • Complex JavaScript • Audience Targeted Web Parts • Information from slow LOB systems

  11. Bling = Slow

  12. Resources • Binary Wave’s Sonar - http://www.binarywave.com/products/sonar/standard/default.aspx • Base Master Page (Heather Solomon) http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/BaseMasterPages.aspx • Minimal Master Page (MSDN) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa660698.aspx

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