Chapter 1. Exploring SharePoint Designer
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER
How SharePoint Designer fits into Microsoft's toolset
SharePoint Designer's basic features
How to create a SharePoint site
How to open an existing SharePoint site
How a SharePoint site is represented in SharePoint Designer
How to change site-wide SharePoint properties
Restricting what SharePoint Designer users can do
WHAT IS SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2010?
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a large and sophisticated web application. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that the tool meant to customize it — Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 — is a large, sophisticated desktop application. Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 is the premier tool for customizing sites based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. It provides features for:
Creating and editing master pages and page layouts
Creating and editing cascading style sheets (CSS)
Designing and editing workflows
Connecting SharePoint to various external data sources
Creating and modifying lists, libraries, and views of data
Managing virtually all other aspects of a user's experience in SharePoint 2010
One very important thing is not on this list: editing SharePoint content. Although SharePoint Designer 2010 does contain powerful page editing tools, these are primarily used in the service of editing the other elements described previously. SharePoint itself is a powerful web-based content management system. Site owners and users use these web-based tools to create and modify the content ...
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