Editing a SharePoint Site with FrontPage

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Editing a SharePoint Site with FrontPage

• The last piece of the puzzle

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SharePoint and FrontPage

• General things to know
• FrontPage has been designed to work natively with
  SharePoint
• New version of FrontPage is called SharePoint
  Designer
• SharePoint is .aspx pages generated by Microsoft
  SQL servers
• WHAT????!!!!!
• It is a fancy website but it means it has html
  that can be edited

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What You Can Do in FP only

• Move and resize WebParts easily
• Add new WebPart zones
• AGAIN WHAT???!!!
• You can add new areas for the WebParts in your
  site
• Redesign the layout of your page
• Add custom colours and images to your site
• Add new pages of your own design with your own
  WebPart zones
• Add lots of customs touches if you want to take
  the time

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What else can you do?

• Back up and restore your entire site
• Back up WebParts including content with some
  WebParts
• Modify the tables
• SP generated tables are complex. Sometimes
  better to create your own
• Upload and create multiple files and folders
• Move, delete and rename them too
• Pull data from any where in the SP portal that
  you and your users have rights to

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What cant you do?

• You cant create new instances of WebParts
• YET AGAIN WHAT???!!!
• You cant create new lists or document libraries
• Only in web interface
• You cant do things you dont have rights to
• FP itself will not let you

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What else?

• You cannot remove the template that has been
  applied
• Every SP site has a template that defines it.
  E.g., team site
• Important for things like back ups
• You cannot restore a site or WebPart to a site
  with a different template
• Little what?
• Templates are unique and sites/WebParts have that
  info in them
• You cannot restore a site and keep the users

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So how do we do things?

• First Open a site.
• Click on the blue button or File? Edit in
  FrontPage
• Lets Try it!!