SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

Over 110 recipes to engineer web content and master SharePoint 2013

Overview

• Brand SharePoint with master pages and page layouts
• Catalog content with cross site publishing
• Enhance the user experience with custom controls
• Create multilingual sites

In Detail

SharePoint 2013 Server includes new and improved features for web content management that simplify how you design publishing sites, and enhances the authoring and publishing processes of organizations. SharePoint Server 2013 also has new features that use the power of search to surface dynamic web content on publishing sites. Using the right tools efficiently can assist organizations in creating compelling content-rich websites without the undue overhead of hands-on management of each piece of content.

SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook is a practical guide to show you how to leverage Microsoft SharePoint 2013 to create a scalable web content management system. This book helps you in learning about the features of SharePoint 2013 in depth and also takes you through each of these features practically by providing you with a hands-on experience.

With SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook, you will learn about a full-fledged web content management system using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. You will start with exploring the WCM features of SharePoint such as catalog content with cross-site publishing, enhancing the user experience with custom controls, and creating multilingual sites. Then you will move on to configure content deployment, search, taxonomy, and content translation. Finally, the book shows you how to leverage Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft InfoPath.

What you will learn from this book

• Manage SharePoint branding with device channels and design packages
• Customize the user experience with delegate controls
• Modify user input with InfoPath
• Create custom page layouts for content pages
• Configure content deployment for staging content
• Create multilingual content with machine translation
• Manage content with SharePoint publishing

Approach

You will be led carefully step-by-step through a detailed set of recipes. This book focuses on web content management using Microsoft SharePoint 2013 server. The practical examples are built logically throughout the chapters to create a common theme.

Who this book is written for

This book is ideal for developers who want to broaden their understanding of the web content management features available with SharePoint 2013. It is assumed that you already have some experience using SharePoint and developing web content. Experience with Microsoft PowerShell and coding C# with Visual Studio will also be helpful, but is not essential.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Branding SharePoint with Composed Looks
Chapter 2: Branding SharePoint with Device Channels and Design Packages
Chapter 3: Branding SharePoint with Custom Master Pages and Page Layouts
Chapter 4: Packaging Branding Elements in a SharePoint Solution with Visual Studio
Chapter 5: Enhancing the Content Creation Process with the SharePoint Publishing Architecture
Chapter 6: Centralizing and Structuring Content with Cross-site Publishing and Managed Metadata
Chapter 7: Customizing the SharePoint Experience with Delegate Controls
Chapter 8: Enhancing User Input with InfoPath Forms
Chapter 9: Configuring Search
Chapter 10: Creating Multilingual Sites with SharePoint Variations
Chapter 11: Configuring Content Deployment
Chapter 12: Configuring Anonymous Access