Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Bible

Introduction

SharePoint Designer is Microsoft's premier offering for Web designers, information workers, and business users to be able to interactively design collaborative SharePoint-based Web applications. It has its roots in FrontPage technologies and is considered the product of choice for users who want to work specifically on SharePoint Web applications.

This book tries to align its content to the development life cycle of a Web site or application. From the initial decisions about the server technologies to be used for Web site development to the actual Web application design and implementation and finally to the Web site maintenance and housekeeping, all facets of SharePoint Designer are covered in simple and easy-to-follow chapters.

This book strives to introduce readers to most of the server-side aspects of SharePoint Designer. Because SharePoint Designer relies on a number of server technologies, such as Internet Information Services (IIS), FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE), and SharePoint, a substantial portion of this book is devoted to helping develop understanding on how these technologies work individually and in relation to SharePoint Designer. Before the book starts to explore the SharePoint Designer functionality, it offers insight into the server products that SharePoint Designer can interact with. Throughout the book, you find notes and tips about features provided by the server technologies that SharePoint Designer either relies on or interacts with. Overall, ...