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Essential SharePoint 2007, 2nd Edition
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Essential SharePoint 2007, 2nd Edition

by Jeff Webb
September 2007
Beginner content levelBeginner
448 pages
10h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Best Practices

You should now understand how to organize sites using web applications, site collections, and subsites. You should be able to customize the navigation and appearance of a site, add tabbed pages, apply themes, and create custom site templates. Use the following practices as you move forward:

  • Add a Help tab to the top-level link bar of your site collections. The built-in SharePoint Help system provides the basic instructions most users need, but it is not featured in the default site navigation.

  • Check existing sites before creating a new one. Often new site requests will fit into an existing site.

  • Broad sites are more usable than deep hierarchies.

  • Create a site collection for any set of related sites that might need separate storage or administration in the future.

  • Build a site gallery containing demonstration sites for each built-in or custom site template. That makes it easier for site collection owners to choose the template that fits their needs.

  • Add the Site Users web part to an Admin page so site owners can easily view existing users and add new ones.

  • Prototype sites and get agreement from users before creating custom templates based on the site. SharePoint is ideally suited for Agile development.

  • Include a version number in custom template filenames and titles.

  • Save the custom templates you create to a Templates folder, and add a Templates folder to the server for all custom templates you deploy using the stsadm.exe utility.

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