1. Putting your Landing Page on a Diet David C. Broussard Sr. Lead Consultant September 22 nd, 2009

2. SharePoint is a Chinese Buffet

3. 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…

4. 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…

5. 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…

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. Bling = Slow

12. Resources Binary Wave’s Sonar - http://www.binarywave.com/products/sonar/standard/defau lt.aspx http://www.binarywave.com/products/sonar/standard/defau lt.aspx Base Master Page (Heather Solomon) http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/BaseMasterP ages.aspx http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/BaseMasterP ages.aspx Minimal Master Page (MSDN) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa660698.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa660698.aspx