Create SharePoint Site

Quickly Create SharePoint Intranet Site using SharePoint Designer and Out oF Box features

Need to create a sharepoint intranet site for a department / team, the following points will expedite the site creation:

Tools/Access Required

- SharePoint Farm Administrator privilege
- SharePoint Site Collection Admin privilege
- SharePoint Designer
- IE Developer Toolbar

Basics

- Make sure SharePoint server is upto date (All SharePoint 2007 Updates)
- Create a blank site, use managed path specific to the department or team

- Enable Publishing Infrastructure
- Install WSS Fab 40 Template
- Create desired page layout for default.aspx using SharePoint Designer (SPD)
- Sample website link
- Enable site usage reporting at Site Collection Administrator Level
- Create Groups as required and use audience targetting in the webparts as required


Look and Feel

- Use pre existing theme
- Write CSS inside Content Editor WebPart for the Content Area / Page Layout.
- Use SharePoint Designer to write inline CSS for the Master Page

Customize MasterPage / Default.aspx (Home Page)

- Embed logo images via SPD as required
- Hide components
    -- View All Site Content
    -- Site Actions
    -- Left Navigation
    -- etc
  by using the following tag as the wrapper around what you want to hide



SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl ID="Control2" runat="server" PermissionsString="ManageSubwebs"


Now here is the description what we had done.
SPSecurityTrimmedControl as the name suggest, the control check the SharePoint permission and if user is permitted (if the user have permission) then it will access the content inside this control.
And if the user don’t have a permission then the content inside this control will not been accessed.

Page Content

* Free Third Party World Clock and Weather WebPart

* Free Third Party Stock Ticker WebPart

* NEWS/RSS Ticker WebPart (mostly at the bottom of the page)

Add a RSS WebPart to the page and open the tool pane.

Goto XSLT Editor replace the existing XSLT from the following blog's XSLT ...

link

Set the property of RSS WebPart and you are all set.

Tip: Generate custom XSLT for SharePoint using SharePoint Designer (SPD)

* Use DataView WebParts for showing snippets from blog / tasks / lists in a customized manner

* Add a Calender webpart for Upcoming Events

* Use RSS WebPart to recieve news

* Use a List WebPart, rename it to My Bookmarks/My Links. i.e. Create a View and customize the view to have only one column called detail link and in the where condition use [Me]

* Use SPD to have Page Hit Count

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