provides the advanced tools you need to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint
Web sites where you and employees can manage internal workflows and work together with
partners on projects.
Build solutions faster to enhance team productivity and efficiency
Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and deploy interactive solutions
on the SharePoint platform, automate business processes and create reporting and
tracking applications .
Design compelling SharePoint sites tailored to your organization's needs
Use professional-quality design tools to create attractive SharePoint pages
that are compatible with a wide range of browsers.Format SharePoint pages quickly using
cascading style sheet (CSS) tools.
Maintain control of your SharePoint sites
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is used to help ensure information workers have
a managed and controlled experience.Determine Contributor Settings for each user role
defined in your SharePoint site
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Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a new product based on Microsoft Office
FrontPage 2003 technologies. The product name reflects the emphasis on creating
and customizing Microsoft SharePoint Web sites and building workflow-enabled
applications on SharePoint technologies. As part of SharePoint Products and
Technologies, Office SharePoint Designer 2007 gives you the powerful tools you
need to:
Deliver attractive and compelling pages.
Incorporate data from a wide variety of sources into interactive Web
pages.
Build time-efficient applications and reporting tools on SharePoint Products
and Technologies using intuitive menus, task panes and wizards — all in an
IT-managed environment.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 builds on FrontPage 2003 technologies to
provide a new level of support for creating and customizing next-generation
SharePoint Web sites. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has deep editing support for
the technologies underlying Windows SharePoint Services, such as ASP.NET 2.0,
cascading style sheets and Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007, based on FrontPage 2003 technologies, puts
the emphasis on creating and customizing SharePoint Web sites. Expression Web
Designer is a new product for creating standards-based Web sites. The two products
share common technologies, including a high-fidelity design surface with deep
support for cascading style sheets and ASP.NET.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 can be used as the foundation tool for
customizing SharePoint sites, ranging from developing attractive and compelling
sites to information tracking and reporting to building solutions and workflows.
For example:
An engineering manager can track issues (such as software bugs) that arise
during new product development using Workflow Designer. Automatic e-mail
messages to the product team are issued after the bugs are resolved, thanks to
custom workflows.
A marketing manager can track the budget spent using live data from the
invoicing database with a data view.
A marketing business analyst can build and customize a SharePoint site to
optimize the collaboration among various project stakeholders during the
development of videotaped customer case studies, and so reduce overrun costs and
speed up development.
Yes. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has excellent support for creating Web
pages based on Web standards such as XHTML and cascading style sheets, and includes
built-in compatibility checkers for these standards. Web sites created with Office
SharePoint Designer 2007 are compatible with any browser that supports these
standards.
By using Contributor Settings, site administrators and IT managers can control
exactly how Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is used, to help ensure that information
workers have an IT-managed and IT-compliant experience.
Windows SharePoint Services is the engine for creating Web sites that help
with information sharing and document collaboration, increasing individual and
team productivity. It is a key piece of the information worker infrastructure
delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. It also provides additional team
services and sites to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications,
as well as serving as a platform for application development. SharePoint sites
take file storage to a new level, from saving files to sharing information, which
helps team members to work together on documents, tasks, contacts, events and
other information. SharePoint sites also help team and site managers easily manage
site content and activity. In addition, the environment is designed for easy and
flexible deployment, administration and application development.Learn more about Windows SharePoint Services.
Yes. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 can be used with Windows SharePoint
Services 2.0 Web sites, including those customized with FrontPage 2003. You won't,
however, be able to use features that require Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, such
as workflow and aggregate data views.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 works with the same types of Web sites as
FrontPage 2003. These include Web sites built on Windows SharePoint Services,
disk-based Web sites and Web sites built on FrontPage Server Extensions. Office
SharePoint Designer 2007 can also open and edit Web sites directly with File
Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
(WebDAV).
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 supports site backup and restore for
SharePoint Web sites. This level of functionality is comparable to the support in
FrontPage 2003, but with enhancements for next-generation SharePoint sites.
