SharePoint Designer Training

Getting Started with SharePoint Designer

We'll make sure you have a basic understanding of the SharePoint Designer workspace and can find your way around the application. Our experienced instructors will show you how to:

• Navigate the SharePoint Designer workspace
• Customize the application interface
• Use the help system effectively

Creating Sites in SharePoint Deisgner

You will get hands-on practice planning and creating a web site using SharePoint Designer. Take the pain out of learning on your own and try things out hands-on in our state-of-the-art classroom. You will explore how to:

• Incorporate your team's requirements as you plan your web site
• Quickly create a basic SharePoint web site
• Save time and enforce consistent site structure with master pages and layouts

Creating Pages in SharePoint Deisgner

We'll show you how much control over page formatting SharePoint Designer gives you, while still keeping things simple. We'll show you how to:

• Create pages directly in SharePoint Designer
• Deal with HTML concepts like tags, attributes, and content
• Understand CSS concepts, and how to separate content from design
• Apply basic formatting like bold and italics
• Link your own custom style sheets to your pages

Adding Images in SharePoint Deisgner

Added graphics can make your site both more informational and more attractive. In this section of the training, we'll show you SharePoint's extensive support for adding different types of images to your web sites. You'll know how to:

• Decide between different image formats: why one might be better than another for your web site
• Add, remove, and modify images to your web site

Navigation

No web site is complete without the ability to link to other sites or documents. Hyperlinks are an important tool when it comes to making your site usable for your team, and providing time-saving shortcuts to information they need. Find out how to:

• Create a basic hyperlink in a SharePoint web site
• Easily create hotspots in graphic images (image maps) to make your graphics even more powerful
• Add bookmarks and bookmark links
• Use buttons and image buttons for links

Using Tables

Working with tables can sometimes be tricky, and we'll make sure you know just how to apply this dynamic feature to add to the clarity, usability, and flow of information on your web site. We'll guide you through how to:

• Organize and format your information into easy-to-read tables
• Create a page layout using tables

Applying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

With or without SharePoint Designer, having an understanding of CSS is essential to creating effective, dynamic web sites that are easy to maintain and update. Whether you're starting out or need a refresher, this section will cover those indispensable CSS skills every web designer needs. We'll teach you how to:

• Find your way in CSS: understand what properties, selectors, and values are
• Know when and how to apply inline, internal, or external stylesheets
• Keep everyone happy with quick and easy updates to styles when needed

Working with Documents, Lists, and Web Parts

We'll show you how to take your web site to the next level by integrating it with your SharePoint Services intranet. This is where the rubber meets the road, as you learn how to make full use of all the SharePoint functionality. We will go over how to:

• Add SharePoint lists and libraries to a team site
• Use web parts and web part pages effectively
• Customize the navigation menus

Workflows

SharePoint Designer gives you much more power over SharePoint workflows. You will learn how to create your own workflows with custom steps that you design without writing any code. You will:

• Create a new workflow that performs useful tasks including selecting users and sending email based on rules you create
• Work outside of the standard, built-in workflows
• Modify workflows and understand more about how workflows and document libraries interact

Sharepoint Designer training offered at four locations::

• Sharepoint Designer training San Francisco
  
• Sharepoint Designer training Los Angeles (call for times)
  
• Sharepoint Designer training San Jose
• Sharepoint Designer training Sacramento