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SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed
By: Kathy Hughes
Publisher: Sams
Pub. Date: September 16, 2011
Print ISBN-10: 0-672-33105-5
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33105-3
Web ISBN-10: 0-13-266085-7
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-13-266085-3
Pages in Print Edition: 1608
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Overview
Microsoft has transformed SharePoint Designer into a free download: now, here's the first comprehensive guide to making the most of it!
Written by Microsoft MVP Kathy Hughes, a leader of the SharePoint Designer community
Shows how to use SharePoint Designer to establish and maintain custom branding
Packed with examples and best practices, and supported with extensive online resources
For all current and potential users: information workers, administrators, designers, developers, and more
Now that Microsoft has made SharePoint Designer a free download, thousands of organizations are adopting it as the tool of choice for designing customized SharePoint sites and solutions. In this book, top SharePoint Designer expert and Microsoft MVP Kathy Hughes brings together all the information they need to make the most of this powerful tool. Packed with solid examples and real-world best practices, SharePoint Designer 2010 Unleashed will be an invaluable resource for all SharePoint Designer users, from professional web developers and designers to information workers, system administrators to managers. Hughes covers all this, and much more: " Building and implementing customized branding using SharePoint Designer, CSS, Master Pages, Themes, and Page Layouts " Getting started with SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 " Creating sites with site templates and out-of-the-box Web parts " Customizing List Forms with InfoPath 2010 " Designing more effective web interfaces with SharePoint Designer 2010 " Implementing and designing MySites " Creating custom workflows and Workflow Forms " Designing sites that use SharePoint 2010's powerful business intelligence features " Creating interactive mashups " Customizing the Ribbon and dialog interface " Prototyping SharePoint sites with Expression Blend 3 and Sketchflow
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"SharePoint Designer 2010 Unleashed" - by kimber7 on 01-MAY-2013
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I had several issues with this 1527 page tome.
First, I would assume from the title (Unleashed) that this is an advanced book, yet the first seven chapters are all introductory material for SharePoint.
Second, there are very few working examples, and certainly no real world examples to show one how certain features might apply to a business. The book is downright boring without examples, and it's a real chore to work through it.
Third, a lot of space is wasted in comparing SP 2007 to SP 2010. It really would have helped to have these items separate (back of chapter?) from the main text. It was a real waste of time for someone who has not used SP 2007 Designer. The same thing applies to the bits comparing Designer and Browser Customization abilities.
Last, the book is just not well organized. It jumps around a lot, between working with specific components and performing a type of task.
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Table of Contents
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1 TokenIntroduction
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1 TokenChapter 4. Design Administrative Tasks: Site Settings, Permissions, and Creating Sites
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1 TokenChapter 6. In-Browser Customization: Branding with Web Parts, Themes, and Master Pages
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1 TokenChapter 13. Building New Content Pages and Configuring Web Parts and Web Part Zones
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1 TokenChapter 16. Working with and Creating New SharePoint Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)