Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 for Office 2007 Users

Chapter 12. SharePoint Designer 2007

SharePoint Designer 2007 is the program provided by Microsoft to allow you to work directly with SharePoint sites. Using SharePoint Designer you can:

• Design and customize existing sites

• Back up SharePoint sites

• Create new sites

• Add objects to your site (for example, information held in databases)

• Create workflows

• Create custom pages

This chapter can only outline some of the features and functionality of SharePoint Designer 2007, showing how it works and providing some examples of what it can be used for. One of the problems in deciding whether or not to include a chapter like this is that, not all the information you will need — or, to be truthful, not even a small part of what you will require — can be provided, but what this chapter can do is expose you to some ideas and pointers that will get you off and running using this powerful tool to begin working directly with SharePoint site design and other areas of SharePoint Designer 2007. As with everything else in SharePoint, you will need the appropriate permissions granted to you in order to work directly with SharePoint Designer and your team sites. In this chapter, you will see how you can add your own Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in SharePoint Master Page to change the default layout, connect to data sources using SharePoint Designer, and back up SharePoint sites.

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Wrox's Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer is worth looking at if you would like to find out more about this powerful ...