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Putting your Landing Page on a Diet
David C. BroussardSr. Lead ConsultantSeptember 22nd, 2009
SharePoint is a Chinese Buffet
Is This Your Landing Page?
• Company News• Industry News• Departmental News• Top Story of the Day• Polls/Surveys• Employee Birthdays• Employee
Anniversaries• Photo of the Day• My Links• Employee Schedules• Employee Recognition• New Products/Services• I Need To…• Targeted Reports• Audience Dashboards• etc…
Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists
My Sites, social networking, privacy control, content
targeting and aggregation,
Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance,
rich people and business data search
Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable Enterprise single sign-on
Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards
Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow
Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, content aggregation, LDAP integration, composite applications
The Promise is the Dilemma…
Content versus Performance
Our desire is to be fast…• Our Landing Page is the most visible page in the entire
site• We must optimize our Landing Page to load as quickly as
possible
The Content Authors want it ALL on one page• They see the Landing Page as the first/only page they
have to get their message to the users• Every department wants their content visible to as many
users as possible…
The Solution?
Put your Landing Page on a diet!• Identify the four “food” groups and limit
your consumption of the bad ones• Framework• Publishing• Work• Bling
Framework
The foundation upon which we will build our page(s)
• Primarily the Master Page• Use static HTML• Navigation
(Contextual & Global)• Optimize for speed of load
• Graphics• Web Parts• Server Controls
• Don’t just hide unused areas
• Start with a Minimal or Base Master Page
Publishing
The key to our slim and lean landing page.• Use Publishing fields for content on the page• Encourage users to create publishing pages and
use content query or search web parts to roll up content sourced from multiple locations
Work
Content that let’s the user actually accomplish their daily jobs.• Reports• Dashboards• Issues lists• LOB Portals using Page Viewer, BDC, Custom Web Parts, etc.• Links to tools
Difficult to implement due to reliance upon external systems.
Use tools like Sonar (BinaryWave) to determine impact of web parts on your page.
Bling
This is the stuff that Corporate Communications just has to have on the landing page.
• SilverLight/Flash• Streaming Audio/Video• Complex JavaScript• Audience Targeted Web Parts• Information from slow LOB systems
Bling = Slow
Resources
• Binary Wave’s Sonar - http://www.binarywave.com/products/sonar/standard/default.aspx
• Base Master Page (Heather Solomon) http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/BaseMasterPages.aspx
• Minimal Master Page (MSDN) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa660698.aspx