SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Part IV

Portals and Extranets

In this part . . .

Here I cover some of the fun stuff, such as changing your plain vanilla site to something a little less . . . SharePointy? Enter the publishing site, stage left.

Unlike team sites, which are about characters and collaboration tools, publishing sites are about the audience and what they see and experience. SharePoint publishing features help you control how your site shows its face to the world. Want to customize your navigation, get rid of the left navigation completely, or hide those ugly application pages? No problem.

A SharePoint publishing site is well equipped with tools that help you create portals and public-facing websites. A publishing site makes applying consistent layouts and navigation across your site possible. You can also use Web Parts to roll up content from one part of your site and present it with a different costume on your home page.

Everyone wants to make SharePoint look less like SharePoint. These chapters show you how to create a new color scheme for your site or completely change the site’s look and feel by hiding and moving what you see on the page.

I also go into creating your web presence in SharePoint Online as well as creating your client portal in the cloud.