Chapter 22: Working with SharePoint Designer 2010
What’s In This Chapter?
- Introduction to SharePoint Designer
- The new user experience
- Controlling the use of SharePoint Designer
- Uses of SharePoint Designer
Organizations purchase SharePoint to help them do more with less. SharePoint is a tool to help companies work smarter as opposed to harder. Although SharePoint is very powerful and has a long list of features and capabilities out of the box, it is fair to assume that most companies are going to want to customize the product in some way. This is where SharePoint Designer (SPD) fits into the picture; it is the preferred tool for customizing SharePoint.
Before we get too far into this chapter, we need to address the elephant in the room. Whether you are a developer or an administrator, you’ve probably already formed an opinion about SharePoint Designer or have heard co-workers and friends saying negative things. This book is family friendly and many of the comments about SPD shouldn’t be repeated — let’s just say that most folks seem to think that the tool does more harm than good.
The bad reputation started back with Microsoft FrontPage, a product that made creating websites easy, almost too easy in many cases. Bad websites created using FrontPage began to pop up all over the place. FrontPage’s reputation was so toxic that there are tales of web developers not being hired because they listed FrontPage on their resumes.
However, aside from making bad websites, FrontPage was also ...
