How To Use Microsoft SharePoint To Web Design And Development

Jed Elliott
2 min readMar 24, 2017

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SharePoint Designer is a tool from Microsoft, which rapidly create SharePoint solutions without code. It is meant for clients or even the developers to speedily respond to advanced business needs. SharePoint Designer allows you as a user or even as a developer to quickly create solutions without code. Business needs are changing or new ones come up… instead of doing a huge specification and execution phase, which results in a lot of resources we have the possibility to rapidly develop solutions for the business needs. The things you can do with SharePoint Designer can be grouped into 4 main categories:

  • Data sources: Create and manage internal and external data sources.
  • Views and forms: Create views and forms to work with data.
  • Workflows: Create workflows to manage business processes.
  • Branding: Customize the look and feel of your SharePoint site.

SHAREPOINT ACCESS MANAGEMENT

One sign on using any login

With the aid of a single login of their choice, employees, partners, and customers gain simple, single-click access to your SharePoint portal from their smart phones, tablets, and computers. Empowered functions as an authentication hub that lets users to sign-in once, with a user account in any trusted root (e.g. Active Directory, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on), and then access your portal without using additional usernames and passwords.

TODAY’S BASIC TIPS FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Learn the basics

Learn how to code in HTML, CSS & JavaScript and I’d recommend taking an online course

  1. Do your research & get inspired

Find some design inspirations.

Check out the search engine for more design ideas.

  1. Make use of free resources

Starting out in web development isn’t expensive Apart from your hardware and there are some great software products that you can use for free. However, it’s not easy.

  1. Improve your web design skills

It doesn’t matter how good you are today, but how fast you improve your design skill every day.

  1. Make yourself familiar with the concept of requirements engineering

Try to learn some of these awesome project management tools and figure out if possible one of them fits your project and workflow.

  1. Get a programming-friendly text editor

A programming-friendly text editor is the essential for every web developer

  1. Use frameworks

Frameworks can improve your life in web development a lot easier

  1. Track bugs — from the start

Most of them think bug tracking is not for beginners. But it is the place where you collect and track bugs and allow your users to report bugs is essential for a successful web development project.

  1. Always Keep Learning

Always try to move forward with your new coding and design skills.

To know more about SharePoint Designs, please visit our website HERE: http://spjedi.com/portfolio/.

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Jed Elliott

SP Jedi — We make kickass websites and SharePoint solution.