The document outlines five ways to enhance SharePoint as an intranet home through themes, pages, and add-ons. Key topics include managing home page content, differences between wiki and publishing pages, and utilizing SharePoint solutions. It also provides practical tips and demos for effective SharePoint usage.

1. Five Ways to Make
SharePoint Your Intranet
Home
Robert Bogue
Shepherd@SharePointShepherd.com
(317) 572-5310

2. Who am I?
• I’ve been making
technology easier to
understand for 22 years
• I’ve helped dozens of
clients implement
SharePoint.
• Certifiable technical
skills

3. Agenda
• Themes
• Pages
• Managing the Home
Page
• SharePoint Add-Ons
• Super Tips

4. Themes

5. What is a Theme?
• A set of colors and
fonts
• Can be used inside of
office applications –
and SharePoint

6. Creating Themes In
PowerPoint
1
2
3
4
6
7
8
5

7. Upload a Theme
2
1
3
4
5
6

8. 4
Apply a Theme
2
1
3
5

9. Demo: Create a Theme
Demo: Upload the Theme
Demo: Apply the Theme

10. Pages

11. Wiki Page
• Definition
• Unstructured content
pages
• Can include Web Parts
• Hawaiian for “quick”
• When to use
• When you need to
deliver unstructured
content
• When you need to
deliver code and
content seamlessly

12. Page Layout
• Definition
• Web Content Management
(WCM) feature
• Used to ensure consistency
across content
• Mixed structured and
unstructured content
• When to Use
• Create consistency across a
large number of contributors
• Plan for changes of content
structure in the future

13. Page Instance
• Definition
• Content + Page Layout
• One page instance for
each content Web page
on your site
• When to use
• When you want to
create content

14. Comparing Wiki and
Publishing Pages
Wiki
• Easier to get started (no
preparation)
• Difficult to maintain
consistency over the
long term
• Difficult to transition
the layout later
Publishing
• Requires work to get
setup
• Designed to maintain
consistency
• Easy to change display
of content later

15. Demo: Create a Page
Demo: Create a Page Layout
Demo: Changing a Page Layout

16. Managing the Home
Page

17. How do I put content on the
page?
• On Publishing Pages
• Field Controls
• On a Wiki Page
• Body Content
• On a Web Part Page
• Content Editor Web Part
(ick!)

18. What is a Web Part?
• A piece of code that
can be placed on a page
by the administrator.
• Can be used to do
anything including
• Executing a search
• Issuing a Query
• Displaying static content

19. Demo: Add a Content Query
Demo: Add a Twitter Feed

20. SharePoint Add-ons

21. What is a SharePoint
Solution?
• A .WSP file that
contains XML and
sometimes compiled
code to be run
• Can be scoped at a
farm or site collection
level
• Site collection solutions
are called Sandboxed
solutions

22. User Code Host
• Sandboxed Solutions
with compiled code
require that the user
code host service be
running.
• They represent no
threat to the health of
SharePoint – but
SharePoint is frequently
not configured
correctly.

23. JavaScript and the CEWP
• CEWP = Content Editor
Web Part
• JavaScript – One bad
apple spoils the whole
bunch

24. Super Tips

25. Something is Broken
• Nothing in the site
works
• Try
_layouts/settings.aspx
• Check the master page
• The page is broken
• Try adding ?Contents=1
• Can’t add a web part
• Try adding
?ToolPaneView=2

26. Remove Menus and Embed
• Add ?IsDlg=1 to remove
header and menus
• Use the resulting page
in the page viewer web
part to create
embedded views

27. Demo: CEWP Good Use
Demo: Page Viewer

28. Free Stuff
• SharePoint Security
Overview
• Project Type/Risk
Matrix
• XSLT for Twitter
• XSLT for Blog

29. Thank You
Robert L Bogue
Shepherd@SharePointShepherd.com
(317) 572-5310