Hello Everyone;
I am working on a SharePoint Branding Project and I am trying transfer a site hosted on Go Daddy to SharePoint. From what I’ve been looking into, this doesn’t seem like an easy task. My boss would like to keep the same content and functionality of the old site. The old site was small, but it did have a contact form and a form to upload your resume. Those forms were built with PHP to run the back end. Our lead SharePoint developer told me I’m going to have to develop a Document Library with a List.
I’m still new to SharePoint, so this if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. Thank you!
Hi Jim! Thanks for those tutorials. I not sure though if these apply to Office 365 Public site. As I was in the site setting menu I don’t have the option to make columns but I can create list.
Hello Stephanie,
Contact form is not a problem you can find an app in SharePoint Store for free.
I guess the answer depends on what your boss means by “keep the same content and functionality of old site”. I do agree with your developer in the general direction.
For static pages, it’s copy paste 🙂 There are tools out there that can do the “scraping” for you but if it’s just a handful of connected pages, then it’s fairly easy to copy the source content and paste it into a new SharePoint page/s that are linked with each other with the good ol hyperlink. NOTE: images from source need to “live” in a picture library in sharepoint. Sooner or later, what you’ll find is that the Core strength of SharePoint is not in WCM but in ECM. That said SharePoint Pages do support adding scripts (Javascript, JQuery, etc) to each page to enhance the UI to get it closer to the older site if that’s the final goal.
As for functionality,contact or service request form can be created easily in SharePoint through constructs called list (allows you to define the questions you ask, order, automate alerts on the background, define admin view, permission, etc.) to “re-create” the experience you had in your public site. NOTE: If this functionality needs to be accessible for all users to be able to add input (enter a request, form, etc.), then you must define permission for that list. In your case, if contacts form is tied to resume of the contact then you may be able to get away with a single list that allows file attachment to address this.
Hope your migration is successful!
I would agree with your developer, but making a list like this is incredibly simple. It might take 15 minutes tops. Watch this:
For SharePoint 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkpj0xWJ6Xg
For SharePoint 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al0T-kyMUHM
