SharePoint Designer 2010 Unleashed - Softcover

Hughes, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672331055 ISBN 13: 9780672331053

Publisher: Sams, 2011

Synopsis

Now that Microsoft has made SharePoint Designer a free download, thousands of organizations are adopting it to design state-of-the-art SharePoint sites and solutions. In SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed, Microsoft MVP Kathy Hughes brings together all the information you need to make the most of this powerful tool. Using realistic examples, you are guided through all of Designer 2010’s capabilities, presenting best practices drawn from her extensive experience.

First, Hughes quickly reviews the SharePoint 2010 concepts and tools that SharePoint Designer 2010 users must know to be effective. Next, she introduces SharePoint Designer 2010’s revamped interface, shows how to use its core features, and calls attention to its most powerful new improvements.

You’ll walk step-by-step through styling and designing sites that offer advanced functionality and consistent branding. Next, you’ll master SharePoint Designer 2010’s toolsets for data integration and workflow development.

This book will be invaluable to every user or potential user of SharePoint Designer, including: Web designers, information workers, software developers, system administrators, and IT managers.

Kathy Hughes is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server with a Masters Degree in interaction design from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Hughes trains and consults on SharePoint, focusing on design, usability, and customization. She contributed to multiple SharePoint Server 2007 books, and authored a comprehensive five-day SharePoint Server 2007 Designer course used by Mindsharp and its partners worldwide. She speaks regularly at Microsoft events including TechEd Australia and Office DevCon Australia.

• Get started fast with SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint 2010
• Customize SharePoint sites and content with CSS, Web Parts, master pages, and themes
• Work with site templatesCreate and adapt content types, columns, lists, and libraries
• Quickly build new content pages and page layouts
• Incorporate media, including Silverlight and images
• Configure RSS, REST, SQL Server, and other data sources
• Integrate external content types and lists via Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• Authenticate data sources and troubleshoot data integration problems
• Extend the ribbon with custom actions and leverage the dialog framework to enhance the user interface
• Use SharePoint Designer 2010’s built-in ASP.NET controls
• Extend site functionality with the XSLT List View and Data View Web Parts
• Modify out-of-the-box list forms, or build new ones with InfoPath 2010
• Adapt Designer 2010’s workflows or build entirely new ones

Category: Microsoft® SharePoint®
Covers: Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010
User Level: Intermediate–Advanced

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About this title

About the Author

Kathy Hughes is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server with a Masters Degree in interaction design from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Hughes trains and consults on SharePoint, focusing on design, usability, and customization. She contributed to multiple SharePoint Server 2007 books, and authored a comprehensive five-day SharePoint Server 2007 Designer course used by Mindsharp and its partners worldwide. She speaks regularly at Microsoft events including TechEd Australia and Office DevCon Australia.

From the Back Cover

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes a wealth of powerful and comprehensive collaborative features, including social networking, extended search, records management and business intelligence features, just to name a few. SharePoint Designer 2010 is the core design tool for designing, prototyping, and customizing both SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 sites, from small sites to enterprise-level internet sites and intranets. All SharePoint users, from information workers and administrators, to designers and developers, will find a clear, comprehensive reference in SharePoint Designer 2010 Unleashed that will empower them to extend SharePoint beyond the out-of-the-box Microsoft interface. Learn how to:

• Work with SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box features and understand the extent of design and customization possible via the Web interface
• Leverage the power of SharePoint Designer 2010 to maximize and extend SharePoint 2010 site customizations
• Customize a site from the early stages of prototyping and design to the final deployment phase
• Build powerful workflows and align them to your business processes
• Integrate and present external data into SharePoint sites
• Effectively brand your SharePoint Server 2010 sites to make them unique and powerful
• Leverage custom branding through the use of CSS, master pages, templates, themes and other features

Edition details

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0672331055
• ISBN 13: 9780672331053
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1608