Intranet Design with Sharepoint Help

[+TCohen4815 Subscriber²]

I am looking to utilize Sharepoint 2010 to create a intranet for the company. I am currently in the learning stage, and I really want the "WOW" factor when it gets rolled out. Can anyone help?

[Roger H. Veteran]

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[capr]

I am also just learning sharepoint 2010. You will need to provide more information if you want serious help....

What kind of permissions do you have? What do you want to accomplish with sharepoint? "use sharepoint to create intranet" doesn't really make much sense.

[+TCohen4815 Subscriber²]

I am a domain admin with limited Sharepoint exposure. We have a sharepoint site that was setup 5 years ago on WSS3.0. It looks so outdated, and the business I work for really doesn't know what a real sharepoint site would look like. I have been browsing the net for ideas and there are so many options. I have a test server that I have been playing on, but I feel I am getting stuck, since I am not a sharepoint designer expert.

[+chorpeac MVC]

SP has many built in color schemes, but to get a wow factor, visually, you will need to be able to create/edit the Master pages. In my mind, SharePoint is great, but you need to understand you can get the most out of it with the out of the box configuration. SP2010 is much better than SP2007. In SP2007, I would say 95% of the visual customizations were centered around changing the site logo... It was just a pain in the arse to customize the UI.

[Dashel]

I concurr with sticking to the default configuration as much as possible personally, expecially for a new site. What are you trying to do that you are getting stuck on?

[capr]

From my limited experience, I have to say I like the defaults, maybe center align some titles here and there... Do you remember when facebook first came out? It was just so much "cleaner" than myspace... If you present something that's neat and well organized, I think you will get your "WOW".

[+TCohen4815 Subscriber²]

Thanks for the info. I'll stick to the out of box config, and tweak a few things. At this point anything is better than what is in place.

[Dan~]

You'll never get the "WOW" factor with sharepoint, maybe "wow you spent all this money for this" or "wow, this is slow"

If you have any say, try to stay away from Sharepoint, there are much better tools out there for free

[HSoft]

You'll never get the "WOW" factor with sharepoint, maybe "wow you spent all this money for this" or "wow, this is slow"

If you have any say, try to stay away from Sharepoint, there are much better tools out there for free

What a load of BS. You want a WOW factor with Sharepoint, take a look http://www.ferrari.com That whole site is built on Sharepoint 2010.

Also Sharepoint 2010 is not slow. Maybe you just have crap hardware that it runs on or you don't know what you are doing.

By the sounds of things you don't even know Sharepoint and are just trolling as WSS (or Sharepoint Foundation as its now called) is completely free. Only Sharepoint Server is a paid product.

[+chorpeac MVC]

What a load of BS. You want a WOW factor with Sharepoint, take a look http://www.ferrari.com That whole site is built on Sharepoint 2010.

Also Sharepoint 2010 is not slow. Maybe you just have crap hardware that it runs on or you don't know what you are doing.

By the sounds of things you don't even know Sharepoint and are just trolling as WSS (or Sharepoint Foundation as its now called) is completely free. Only Sharepoint Server is a paid product.

Have to agree with this argument. SP is by no means slow, unless it is on legacy hardware or running in a VM on an already taxed server.

[briangw]

We have an implemented Farm since the summer of 2011 and I am the admin for our two web front ends, app, and index servers. All of ours are in VMs at the recommended specs and the slowness we have determined came from network links from outside offices to us, but it is in no way slow. Sometimes, Central Admin is slow to move around in, but I haven't figured that one out yet.