Creating Public Facing Websites with SharePoint 2013

Public Websites

Considerations and Architecture Options

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Overview

• Broad categories– Design– Content– Navigation– Search

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Design

• Responsive– Pros– Cons

• Device Channels– Pros– Cons

• Hybrid– Pros– Cons

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Content

• Publishing Pages– Page Layouts– Individual pages

• Catalogs– List based catalogs– Variations

• Search based– Surface content using search and display templates.

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Navigation

• Manually configured• Managed Metadata based

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Search

• Define search experience for the users– Design display templates– Understand content

• Define Query Rules– Define ranking– Promote results

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Tips

• Search Results Web Part– Trim Duplicates

• Ranking– Rank cannot be based on queried values.

• E.g. Boost if Page Field x contains “Queried value”

• Design– Responsive can get expensive based on how pixel perfect you

need the design to be.– Device channels need customizations to support web parts zones.

• Navigation– Catalog based navigation has some issues when there are multiple

zones.

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Questions ?