WCM & Public Facing Websites on SharePoint Online / Office 365

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Building your online presence with SharePoint 2013 OnlineAonghus Fraser @gusfraser

Office 365 Business Briefing, London, 17th June 2013

Agenda

Introductions A Brief Overview of Web Content Management Office 365 WCM Capabilities Demonstration Summary Q&A

Aonghus (Gus) Fraser SharePoint Evangelist & Lead Consultant @ C5 Developing Enterprise Solutions since SharePoint 2003 Twitter: @gusfraser Email: af@c5.je Bunch of MSFT certs e.g. MCPD, MCSD, MCITP etc. Ex web-designer (circa 1997-1999) Architected a WCMS still in use by 80k user company today C5 Alliance; ~75 IT consultants (18 SharePoint/CRM)

Based in Jersey & Guernsey Probably the highest concentration of SharePoint consultants on the planet*

*unconfirmed

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Jersey

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Guernsey

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C5 Alliance 75+ highly skilled, qualified

and experienced consultants ~14 SharePoint Consultants Jersey, Guernsey, London.

On Premises WCM

A Brief Overview of WCM

<html>

<body><h1>Still “just” HTML!</h1>

<h2>Not much has changed semantically</h2>

<h3>The tools have changed dramatically!</h3>

</body>

</html>

Popular Web Content Management Options

PHP Open Source

• Wordpress• Silverstripe• Joomla• Drupal

.NET Open Source

• Umbraco• Orchard

.NET Commercial

• Sitecore• EpiServer• DotNetNuke• SharePoint!Viable options but

think of cost, diluted skills, usability

Microsoft (SharePoint) not in the top

quadrant but it may be “good enough” for

most

Office 365 WCM Capabilities

Office 365 WCM Capabilities – Part 1

Publishing Engine

•Draft Pages•Publishing Workflow

Image Renditions

•Upload any file size•Resize to fit on the fly

Mobile Device Channel

•Alternate Master Page

Office 365 WCM Capabilities – Part 2

Search•OOTB is Great!•Custom search-driven pages•Managed Metadata

SEO•Friendly URLs•Meta tags•Light(er) pages

Apps & Marketplace

•Social integration•3rd party widgets

Office 365 WCM Capabilities – Part 3

Re-usable Content

•Header, Footer content etc.

Snippets•Paste in SP or .NET content

Design Manager

•Dreamweaver(!)•Master Pages & Page Layouts

Limitations

Extensibility – Sandbox Solutions or Apps only Not necessarily a problem…

Many options hidden from the UI Search, Content Types, Site Columns

No multi-lingual option Sub sites

Not confirmed as fully supported (although possible..)

Demonstration

How The Daily Planet moved to Office 365

Summary

Why?

Cost Usability & User Experience Web Publishing Features Mobile Device Channel Search Design Manager

Why Not?

Multi-lingual requirements Complex site with deep structure (sub-sites) Back-end integration (e.g. e-Commerce) No Content Authoring farm

The End - Thank You!

Any Questions?

@gusfraser

af@c5.je

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