SharePoint Designer 2010 Unleashed

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

List of contents

Introduction 1

 
Part I Welcome to SharePoint Server 2010!
1 SharePoint 2010 Overview 15
2 SharePoint Server 2010 Architectural Overview
3 Introduction to the SharePoint 2010 Fluid Interface
4 Design Administrative Tasks: Site Settings, Permissions, and Creating Sites
5 In-Browser Customization: Navigation, Content Pages, and Content
6 In-Browser Customization: Branding with Web Parts, Themes, and Master Pages

 
Part II Enhancing Sites with SharePoint Designer 2010
7 Web Interface Design with SharePoint Designer 2010
8 Creating Sites with Site Templates
9 Working with Content Types and Columns in SharePoint Designer
10 Creating and Configuring Lists and Librarie

Part III Styling and Designing SharePoint 2010 Sites
11 Understanding SharePoint Designer Editing Features
12 Working with Content Pages in SharePoint Designer
13 Building New Content Pages and Configuring Web Parts and Web Part Zones
14 Extending Content Pages with Media and Dialogs

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.

Summary

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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Product details

• Authors: Kathy Hughes
• Publisher: Sams
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780672331053
• ISBN: 978-0-672-33105-3
• No. of pages: 1608
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 230 mm x 54 mm
• Weight: 1992 g
• Series: Sams; Sams
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages