Beginning SharePoint® Designer 2010

INTRODUCTION

Microsoft SharePoint is taking the world by storm. More and more, web designers are being blown along with it — whether they want to be or not. SharePoint is a large, complicated web application. There is a lot of conflicting, confusing (and sometimes just plain bad) advice floating around with regard to how to go about customizing SharePoint for a particular customer. Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 can be your eye of calm at the heart of this maelstrom.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Maybe you are an experienced web designer who has been asked to brand a SharePoint site. Perhaps you're a business analyst who needs a workflow to manage a QA process, or a power user of SharePoint who wants to mash-up data from a line of business systems (or several) into an online map. Or, maybe you're new to both SharePoint and web design, and just want to see what it's all about.

Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 offers something for all of you. Although it is not an HTML primer, it does contain some valuable pointers that someone new to web design can use. Yet, because SharePoint Designer is about far more than page editing, even if you never have (and probably never will) gaze upon raw HTML code, this book has plenty to offer you.

WHAT THIS BOOK COVERS

This book provides a broad overview of Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010. It covers everything from basic page editing to workflow design. You'll be taken from master pages to Silverlight and points beyond. Even the companion technologies of ...