Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Evolution of Web Design Tools

SharePoint Designer 2010 supersedes SharePoint Designer 2007. However, unlike SharePoint Designer 2007, SharePoint Designer 2010 is specifically geared toward customizing and designing SharePoint 2010 sites and cannot be used for working with non-SharePoint sites. Similarly, SharePoint Designer 2010 cannot be used with SharePoint Server 2007 sites.

Since SharePoint Portal Server 2001, in which there were limited design capabilities, an abundance of tools have entered the SharePoint marketplace. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 saw FrontPage 2003 used extensively for customizing pages, designing pages, and adding logic via the DataView Web part. SharePoint Server 2007 saw the introduction of SharePoint Designer 2007 ...