November 2010
Beginner
454 pages
15h 15m
English
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Professional SharePoint® 2010 Branding and User Interface Design
by Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, Larry Riemann
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SharePoint Designer 2010
Overview
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
The history of SharePoint Designer
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New changes in SharePoint Designer 2010
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An overview of the new user interface
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Branding with SharePoint Designer 2010
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Views and the XSLT List View Web Part
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Restricting access to SharePoint Designer 2010
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SharePoint Designer (SPD) 2010, the latest version, includes many changes and improvements,
and it remains an important tool for customizing the look and feel of SharePoint. This chap-
ter takes you on a tour of the major changes to SPD 2010, focusing on its branding-related
functionality.
HISTORY OF SHAREPOINT DESIGNER
Before the advent of SPD, there was a product called Microsoft FrontPage. For many web
designers, the mere mention of FrontPage conjures up bad memories; and while it is true that
the origins of SPD can be traced back to FrontPage, it has come a very long way. Although the
product originally was an ugly duckling of sorts, it has evolved into a powerful tool — not
only for branding, but also for managing your SharePoint sites and improving business pro-
cesses in your organization.
FrontPage was designed to be a powerful tool that made creating websites easy; but with great
power comes great responsibility. This mantra has been a recurrent theme of the product
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