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Brand SharePoint, and Let Me Help You Do It!

How­ever you use the term “brand­ing” (and some of us agree it is mis­used when applied to Share­Point) many com­pa­nies still need to do it.  The prob­lem often comes when we start a brand­ing project we sim­ply don’t know where to begin.

My com­pany, Mixon Con­sult­ing, asked me to write a cur­ricu­lum on brand­ing Share­Point with my exten­sive expe­ri­ence with user inter­face design.  Once I learned the details on how to use the Share­Point plat­form I was able to put together a cur­ricu­lum that helps indi­vid­u­als through the painful process.  I’m please with the result, and I look for­ward to teach­ing it and help oth­ers with the task. Here is an overview of the curriculum:

• Under­stand the Share­Point platform
• Become acquainted with the dif­fer­ences between var­i­ous Share­Point interfaces
• See how Microsoft con­structed a default inter­face and how to change it
• Learn the com­mon tasks Share­Point Designer can help you com­plete in the effort
• Learn how to use tech­nolo­gies such as the data view and data form web parts
• Uti­lize Share­Point web con­tent man­age­ment (WCM) fea­tures to deliver instant value to your organization
• Cre­ate cus­tom mas­ter pages, stylesheets, and pages

What Makes This Class Unique?

You might be won­der­ing that after see­ing the list above. After all, there are other train­ing com­pa­nies that pro­vide the above in a cur­ricu­lum.  There are, how­ever, some seri­ous dif­fer­ences that you’ll get from some­one versed in user expe­ri­ence and web stan­dards devel­op­ment.  Here are a few:

• Use free and open source tools to under­stand an interface
• Learn how to dis­till func­tional busi­ness require­ments when doing design work
• See how infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture plays an impor­tant role in design­ing interfaces
• Have the oppor­tu­nity to con­verse with some­one with nearly a decade of inter­ac­tion and inter­face design
• Get access to resources to help you in your brand­ing effort
• Learn how to find answers when you need them

If you want more infor­ma­tion you can see the offi­cial mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als on Mixon’s site.

Reg­is­ter Today!

Reg­is­tra­tions are being accepted today.  The first class will be on Novem­ber 11th for three days, and it is $795. If you reg­is­ter by the 30th of this month you’ll get a $50 dis­count.  Here are links to register.

1. Novem­ber 11th — 13th
2. Decem­ber 10th — 12th