SharePoint - Follow the yellow brick road to public websites Adam Cogan, SSW

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Making those Search Sites Hum - Tim Wragg , Professional Advantage

This month we are lucky enough to have Adam Cogan share his experience and lessons learnt while he worked to get the SharePoint based site for Worley and Parsons (www.worleyparsons.com.au) up and running.
Adam will also take us through how to improve the visual appeal “Sexify” the look and feel of your SharePoint site, or as he calls it “de-SharePointing with style”.

Full details of what Adam will cover include;

* Why companies want SharePoint’s Web Content Management
* How to “Sexify” the look and feel (aka de-SarePointing with style)
* Reducing the use of tables via ASP.NET control adapters
* Cross-browser compatibility the easy way with JQuery
* How to use the Custom Navigation Control Adapters - the golden pearl
* Customizing SharePoint web parts
* How to deploy (and how you can avoid 3 all-nighters)
* Performance - targeting anonymous users
* The lessons learned

Making those Search Sites Hum.
Tim Wragg , Professional Advantage

Join Tim Wragg from Professional Advantage as he takes us through customising the search from the way it indexes content right through to making those snappy result pages. Tim will use 2 common customer scenarios by customising the people search and a structured document search with metadata.

When: 26nd November, 5.30pm
Where: Microsoft’s Innovation Centre, Level 5, 4 Freshwater place, Southbank, Melbourne