Pro Sharepoint Designer 2010

SharePoint 2010 offers developers, designers, and users a sophisticated intranet, web application, and internet site platform, but until now, SharePoint users have had to painfully edit code or seek developer assistance to customize more than just the most minor parts of their sites. All of that has changed with SharePoint Designer 2010. Gain complete control and enhance your SharePoint sites with a depth not previously possible with this book, Pro SharePoint Designer 2010, your soup-to-nuts reference to unlocking the power of SharePoint Designer.

Covering everything you need to know to create custom, rich SharePoint experiences on their sites, Pro SharePoint Designer 2010 is a masterful guide to getting the most from this powerful application quickly and easily.

This book starts with a fast-paced introduction to the new version of the SharePoint Designer solution, including an overview of its features and capabilities, and then demonstrates those tools in use in a practical, results-oriented way to vastly improve the functionality and fit and finish of your SharePoint sites. With Pro SharePoint Designer 2010 at hand, you will master the customization of the complete end user SharePoint 2010 experience and be on your way to enhancing your sites in no time.

What you’ll learn

• create and edit master pages and page layouts
• make, customize and enhance libraries and lists exercise granular control of site permissions on all SharePoint 2010 objects
• enhance the look and feel of forms, library views, and more through CSS styles and themes
• connect SharePoint to databases, web applications, line of business (LOB) programs, and more
• integrate InfoPath for automated form handling and controlcreate and manage web parts
• further customize SharePoint using JavaScript and Silverlight

This book is for end users, administrators, and novice developers with some coding experience, and anyone else who wants to create custom, rich SharePoint experiences on their sites quickly and easily. More advanced users will find the client-side programming material helpful as well.