So as some of you may know I work at a High School as the ICT Officer, my next major project is going to be developing a SharePoint Services 3.0 Intranet to replace our current woefully inadequate system.

Now as Sharepoint is not something I have worked with before and web design is not exactly my area of expertise I expect I will be learning a lot on the fly as I go.

The project will probably start off slowly as I just get a feel for the software rather than do any serious design but after that I will write up a design document and the project can hopefully get off the ground running.

Initially the project will be running off a virtual server of Windows Server 2008 on my Home PC and after the initial period I will move it across to our secondary server at school once the Pilot test is ready to go. After that is up and running the remainder of my work should be on the aesthetic side and any features the pilot group think could be useful.

If anyone has any suggestions for tutorials or guides for me to take a look at either post a comment or send me an email at rhys@rhysaronson.org

Some guides I have been looking at for the initial design/planning phase.

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200503/ij_03_02_05a.html

http://www.alentus.com/hosting/sharepoint-guide.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/default.mspx?mfr=true

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Windows-SharePoint-Services.html