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Web Content Management (WCM)

Basics / News

• Web Publishing and Planning Guide for MOSS 2007 (TechNet, publ. May 2007)
• Page Anatomy - early MS Product Group post describing page architecture (Feb 06)
• Public Site and Blogs hosted on and/or about MOSS/WSS (Ian Morrish)
• Collection of resources for WCM on MOSS (Andrew Connell)

Branding

• Heather Solomon's detailed chart for customising CSS files: CSS Reference Chart
• Changing the look and feel of WSS master pages (Joel Oleson, Apr 07)
• Series of blog posts by 'Clever Workarounds' covering SharePoint branding (Oct 2007):
  • Part 1 - How CSS works with master pages; Part 2 - More on CSS and Master Pages
  • Part 3 - Even more on CSS and master pages; Part 4 - Packaging up into a Feature
  • Part 5 - Feature Improvements and Bugs; Part 6 - A 'solution ' to all issues
  • Part 7 - The 'governance' of it all
• Customising and branding WCM-enabled SharePoint sites - MSDN (Oct 2006)
• Collection of resources for WCM on MOSS (Andrew Connell's web site)

Accessibility

• Is MOSS 2007 Accessible? - blog post covering level A compliance, Aug 07 (Andrew Woodward)
• Live examples:
  • http://www.fifteen.net (A)
  • http://www.wise-woman.net/pages/default.aspx (AA)
  • http://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (AA)
  • http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx (A)
  • http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/Pages/default.aspx (A)
  • http://www.nntt.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
  • http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx and its associated case study
• Accessify Forum.com - discussing MOSS 2007 accessibility compliance
• Accessibility Kit for SharePoint - CodePlex (link to HiSoftware)

Tips and Tricks

• To improve performance, use caching. But note that it is not suited for content that changes regularly (daily or more frequent) or where content is personalised
• For public web sites, activate ViewFormPagesLockDown to ensure users can only view published pages in your site, not any of the form of view pages. Note: only works with MOSS 2007 Publishing Template (not WSS). See the following blog post for more details:
  • http://blog.richfinn.net/2008/07/22/PublicFacingSharePointHeresSomethingScary
    PleaseActivateViewFormPagesLockDown.aspx
• Wrapping text in a web part title - MSDN Blog, Apr 2008
• Customise the formatting of the RSS Viewer web part (MS blog, Mar 07)
• How to move content from dev to production (hint: deploy as Features) - Andrew Connell, Dec 2006

Extras on CodePlex

• Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint - integrate rich media capabilities
• Community Kit for SharePoint - enhanced templates for blogs, wikis etc.
• SharePoint Forums web part - improved version of the traditional discussion list

It doesn't look like SharePoint...

• http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au (case study blogged here May 08 and includes before and after shots). Work Included:
  • 2 master pages with 4 colour styles (seasonal); 27 page layouts; 35 web parts
  • And a bunch of bespoke dev - wizard-style pages for data entry and web services, Virtual Earth, weather feeds, cookie-based 'My Picks' and custom search

Related Blogs

• Heather Solomon
• Andrew Connell
• Andrew Woodward

Related Blog Posts

• SharePoint for web sites or not?