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Considerations and Architecture Options
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Overview
• Broad categories– Design– Content– Navigation– Search
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Design
• Responsive– Pros– Cons
• Device Channels– Pros– Cons
• Hybrid– Pros– Cons
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Content
• Publishing Pages– Page Layouts– Individual pages
• Catalogs– List based catalogs– Variations
• Search based– Surface content using search and display templates.
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Navigation
• Manually configured• Managed Metadata based
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Search
• Define search experience for the users– Design display templates– Understand content
• Define Query Rules– Define ranking– Promote results
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Tips
• Search Results Web Part– Trim Duplicates
• Ranking– Rank cannot be based on queried values.
• E.g. Boost if Page Field x contains “Queried value”
• Design– Responsive can get expensive based on how pixel perfect you
need the design to be.– Device channels need customizations to support web parts zones.
• Navigation– Catalog based navigation has some issues when there are multiple
zones.
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Questions ?