MS SharePoint Designer 2007 Advanced

This 1-day course builds on the skills and concepts taught in SharePoint Designer 2007: Basic. Delegates will learn how to create dynamic components, work with multimedia files, create interactive content, design with layers, and create tables and forms. Students will also learn the basics of data-driven Web sites, and they'll learn how to fix typical Web site problems.

All delegates should have a working knowledge of:

A working knowledge of computer.
An understanding of the concepts behind a SharePoint site
A desire to create and publish SharePoint sites
Attended the SharePoint 2007 Designed Basic event or have equivalent working knowledge

 Objectives: 

• Create a dynamic date and time stamp, create a site map, insert Flash animations, Windows Media Player files, and
QuickTime movies, and set their display properties.

• Create basic rollovers, apply behaviors, specify the events and actions that comprise behaviors, create custom rollovers, and apply the Swap Images behavior to create rollovers and disjoint rollovers.

• Create layers and assign IDs, position layers, control the stacking order of layers, set specific values to position a layer precisely, control layer visibility, and create dynamic layers.

• Create layout tables and layout cells to build a page layout, draw layout cells, create a fluid layout, and apply basic formatting options to layout tables and cells.

• Create forms and insert and modify a variety of input fields, apply validation rules to text fields and option buttons, and test the validations to verify their functionality.

• Identify the functionality and advantages of dynamic Web sites, discuss the basics of database connectivity and Web Parts, identify basic concepts regarding the applications students can create by using Web Parts, and apply an XML data source to a Web page.

• Apply basic search engine optimization, insert description and keyword meta tags, check for browser compatibility problems, apply the Check Browser behavior, remove unlinked files from a site, and use the Accessibility pane to locate, understand, and fix accessibility problems.

Content:

Web components and multimedia

- Web components
- Multimedia

Interactive content

- Interactive buttons
- Behaviors
- Rollover

Layers

- Creating layers
- Layer visibility

Layout tables

- Creating layout tables
- Working with layout table

Web Forms

- Creating forms
- Input validation

Data-driven pages

- Introduction to dynamic pages
- Web Parts
- Data View

Site management

- Basic search engine optimization
- Compatibility testing
- Reports
- Accessibility