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What is a Sharepoint website ?
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sp4ceman
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It's a front end that interacts with a share point server.
HavocXphere
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As a side note...sharepoint seems to be one of the more hated solutions out there...
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Dolby
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So they look the same from the front end?
Here is an introduction : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaek6P6SDqg
You can sign up for a trail to office365 and give it a go.
As for the look, you can customize it in such a way that most people wont realize that they are on a sharepoint site. I wont recommend customizing the look and feel if you are not a web developer though.
You can sign up for a trail to office365 and give it a go.
As for the look, you can customize it in such a way that most people wont realize that they are on a sharepoint site. I wont recommend customizing the look and feel if you are not a web developer though.
diabolus
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Short answer, a sharepoint website does not look any different to any other site, it can be standard HTML/HTML5/anything the developer wanted to use. Sharepoint is basically a portal for bringing together a variety of web sites/documents/applications.
The main difference is, sharepoint provides a default set of tools to build web applications on top of the sharepoint server, but even this can be HTML or C# or ASP technologies.
You can pretty much build sharepoint websites without coding anything if you stick to the default templates.
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Pho3nix
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For good reason.. 2013 is better but this will do your head in.
Pho3nix
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Looks like any other website.
Check the AMD site. That is SharePoint 2013.
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Pho3nix
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my answer to Dolby was going to be "...its an anomaly"
I think wordpress killed it, no ?
An abomination!
Share point server is a microsoft document/knowledge management solution. Usually a sharepoint site is written in some flavor of .net (I think its vb and C#) and some HTML/HTML5.
kripstoe
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Why... in your opinion?
SharePoint is an Enterprise Content Management system / platform. Suitable for medium and larger companies, although I suppose if you have the money, anybody could use it. It's actually extremely powerful used in the correct scenario. Implemented incorrectly it will most probably suck.
"Usually"? You don't have to code anything in C#/VB.Net to make a SharePoint site. You can create a fairly impressive site using the standard SharePoint functionality. Even if you want to customize it, you can use HTML5 and JavaScript (to access SharePoint RESTful services if you want) leveraging some powerful things such as the SharePoint Search REST API (which makes use of Microsoft FAST in 2013). Used with something like KnockoutJS or AnugularJS you can build some cool things.
Some international sites that come to mind: Ferrari, Fiat Italy, Swiss Airlines, Renault.
Saying that... SharePoint is resource hungry with all the additional services enabled. There are other solutions that will work just as good (or better) if you don't make use of the the "fancy" things in SharePoint.
Saying SharePoint sucks just because it Microsoft and/or because of lack of understanding is silly.
ChocolateBadger
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I worked as a sharepoint developer for 6 months. I changed careers.
Arthur
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Nicely summarized.
By the way, you get SharePoint included with any of the Office 365 business subscriptions, and that now includes a terabyte of OneDrive space, which is really just a SharePoint service.
But SharePoint is not for kids. It's an extremely powerful enterprise-class platform, that's pretty hairy under the covers. For large businesses that need this functionality there is nothing close in power, capability and price. And it has a rich set of tools - it's a whole content-management ecosystem either on-premise or in the cloud.
By the way, you get SharePoint included with any of the Office 365 business subscriptions, and that now includes a terabyte of OneDrive space, which is really just a SharePoint service.
But SharePoint is not for kids. It's an extremely powerful enterprise-class platform, that's pretty hairy under the covers. For large businesses that need this functionality there is nothing close in power, capability and price. And it has a rich set of tools - it's a whole content-management ecosystem either on-premise or in the cloud.
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KleinBoontjie
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You got a new job with Sharepoint behind your name, while working as a Sharepoint developer????................WOW??????
Sharepoint can both be a joy and a pain in the butt to work with. I loved the document versioning part of it. It definitely stopped requests for customers coming to us to write them another document management system. With versions, with rollback, with access control. Yay! But we had clients wanting to built a whole project management suite in sharepoint. Oi, what not just use Microsoft's project management product then. But no, clients too stingy to pay.
and I never really got the compiling joke until I started doing webpart development on sharepoint... http://xkcd.com/303/ is sooo true
and I never really got the compiling joke until I started doing webpart development on sharepoint... http://xkcd.com/303/ is sooo true