Pro SharePoint Designer 2010

Preface

First, a confession: I am not a professional web designer. I am a web developer, a code junkie, a rip-it-open-and-see-how-it-works kind of guy. When Jonathon Hassell approached me about doing a book on SharePoint Designer, my first response was “Why me?” After a series of conversations, I came to understand that my point of view could be useful for explaining SharePoint Designer's “sweet spot” in the SharePoint solution space.

When I first encountered FrontPage 2003, I was not impressed. It seemed to me to be an over-engineered HTML editor that required server extensions and an awkward security configuration to even function properly. Since I spent most of my working life in Visual Studio, it seemed natural to me that that would be ...