Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Bible

Chapter 19. Using SharePoint Designer

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Finding out about SharePoint Designer

• Customizing SharePoint sites

SharePoint Designer 2010 can help you enhance your productivity by creating powerful solution applications on the SharePoint platform. SharePoint Designer delivers a complete set of instruments and tools for application building and Web authoring. Although SharePoint Designer is a powerful workflow and business process automation tool, this chapter focuses specifically on how to customize SharePoint Web sites with SharePoint Designer.

Most organization plan for and consider presenting information to people in their organization in a way that feels familiar to them. This can be achieved using SharePoint Designer by manipulating the graphical or branding of the site as well as the layout of the information that is presented to each user. The more familiar people feel when they access your SharePoint sites, the more comfortable they will be as they perform the tasks they have accessed the site to complete.

Exploring SharePoint Designer

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 is a powerful Web development and management software program for the creation, customization, and extension of SharePoint 2010 sites.

With the new SharePoint Designer, you can customize SharePoint sites for individuals and teams. SharePoint Designer 2010 includes an intuitive interface that enables rapid creation and customization of SharePoint-based sites. You can take advantage of industry standards such ...