1. Dennis Bottjer Solutions Architect April Dunnam Lead SharePoint Consultant/Developer Building Public Web Sites With SharePoint Online

2. Introductions April started her career as an IT Intern at Cherokee Casino. It was there she found her niche and a passion for design & development and began to focus her efforts on asp.net development, c# and SharePoint. She went on to complete dual degrees in MIS and Marketing from Northeastern State University and got a job at a telecommunications firm where she worked her way up to SharePoint Developer. Several years later, April was invited to join the ThriveFast team as senior consultant. April is dedicated to continual self-improvement. She is constantly reading up on the latest technologies & career publications and routinely participating in professional conferences including Tech Fest & SharePoint Saturdays. Leadership: Vice President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group. @AprilDunnamSharePointSiren.com april.dunnam@thrivefast.com

3. Introductions Dennis started his career, years ago, as a help desk professional for an architecture firm and experienced, first hand, the struggle of small business & technology. Through that experience and his education in MIS at OU, he gained a keen skill as a developer & a passion for designing business applications. Over the course of 10 years, Dennis moved on to work for several corporations and Fortune 500's like Bank of America, leading teams to develop SharePoint & custom software solutions on a much larger scale. Today, Dennis spends the bulk of his time consulting with ThriveFast's diverse clients. Occasionally, he'll take the night off to attend or speak at a conference or event like 'SharePoint Saturdays' or to read a good book. Leadership: Advisor of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group. @dbottjerDennisBottjer.com Dennis.Bottjer@thrivefast.com

4. Tulsa SharePoint User Group Meets Last Wednesday of Every Month Time: 12:00 – 1:00 **Lunch is provided! For More Info including meeting location, times visit: http://www.tulsaspug.com @Tulspughttps://www.facebook.com/groups/TSPIG/

5. Agenda  Why SharePoint Online  Branding, Content Management, SEO  Value  When to Custom Develop  Recommendations for integrating custom code

6. Why SharePoint Online?

7. Design Manager (Improved Branding) Favorite Tool – Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Note Pad Web Standards – HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript SP Snippets Alternative Pages (Device Channels) Branding

8. Publishing Workflow Draft Pages Lists, Pages Gallery Master Pages, Page Layouts Re-Useable Content Image Resizing Content Management

9. Meta Tags, Keywords, etc. Friendly URLs Lighter Pages SEO

10. FREE = One Public Site Included SharePoint Online, 1 User per month cost Familiar Tools and UI Value

11. Examples: http://www.topsharepoint.com/ Organizations Small Business Divisions Who?

12. Design Manager

13. New to SharePoint 2013 Theming is great but can only get you so far Use Design Manager if you want to make SharePoint look less like SharePoint Custom Master Page Page Layouts Custom CSS Javascript Design Manager

14. Create complete custom branding through the UI Bye Bye SharePoint Designer! Design View is no more Opens Doors to Designers Web Designer Creates HTML/CSS You import into SharePoint and Convert to SharePoint Elements Design Manager

15. Publishing Infrastructure is Required! Must treat Branding Assets as Local Files Use WebDAV Open in Explorer or Map to Network Drive Must have Full Control or Designer Permissions Design Manager Caveats

16. Design Manager Demo

17. Content Management Demo

18. Limitations

19. Options Hidden from the UI Content Types, Site Columns, Search Use SharePoint to access Content Types, Site Columns, etc. Features & UI

20. Sub Sites Unsupported Sandbox Solutions limited support No OOTB Multi-Lingual Support No REST API for Anonymous Users No Caching Limitations (Cont.)

21. Suggestions

22. Consider SPServices (ASMX still available) JSLink for content queries Search and Display Templates Backend Integration

23. Minimize CSS and JavaScript Use CDN Reduce Requests Performance

24. Responsive Design

25. By 2014, Mobile Internet will take over Desktop Internet Usage.

26. Device Types & Break Points

27. Important Related Buzzwords Progressive Enhancement Graceful Degradation Adaptive Web Design Responsive Web Design Desktop FirstMobile First

28. Cross Browser Support Greater ROI Responsive Design

29. Common frameworks And so many more

30. Thank You! Building Public Facing Web Sites SharePoint 2013 @AprilDunnamSharePointSiren.com april.dunnam@thrivefast.com