SharePoint 2010 for Web Designers is an intensive online course that teaches SharePoint-specific techniques to design Web pages and brand Websites in a SharePoint 2010 environment. You will learn how to override and extend the core CSS rules that give SharePoint 2010 sites their standard look and feel. You will also learn how to design, implement and deploy custom master pages that work equally well in Team Sites and Publishing Sites. The course provides extra coverage of branding topics specific to Publishing sites such as creating a site taxonomy, configuring navigation and designing page layouts. This course motivates the need for adding custom client-side behavior behind pages in SharePoint 2010 sites and demonstrates how to accomplish this by writing JavaScript code and by leveraging the jQuery libraries.
Students should have a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and should have experience in SharePoint working with team sites and publishing portals. It is also recommended (but not required) that students have previous experience with JavaScript programming and a Web design tool such as SharePoint Designer, ColdFusion or Dreamweaver.