Setup and Basics -- Checking Your Gear for Departure -- Taking a Crash Course in XML -- Exploring Feature Basics and Not-So Basics -- Dissecting the Default User Experience -- Excavating the Site -- Evolving the Default User Experience -- What Lurks in the Forest of Lists? -- Encountering the Monsters in the Cave -- The Liquid Nitrogen of SharePoint -- Strolling Through Fields of Gold -- Intermission: The Mentality of a SharePoint Developer -- Building an Empire -- Starting Field -- Creating Your First Content Factory -- Accounting Gone Haywire -- Pages and Pages of Fun! -- Our Empire United.

The SharePoint user experience is critical in application architecture and user acceptance. Using tools available to all developers, Building the SharePoint User Experience will show you how to rebuild a SharePoint site, taking it all the way from the default out–of–the–box experience to your very own customized user experience. Along the way you will receive a solid understanding of the SharePoint architecture that will enable you to take full advantage of the capabilities of SharePoint as a platform. This will allow you to tailor the SharePoint user experience to increase the value of solutions and to work more effectively with projects. And that, of course, leads to successful SharePoint solutions in your business that your users are happy to accept and use.