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March 22, 2006

SharePoint Designer 2007

Most of us by now realize that the FrontPage reputation was quite tarnished. Sometimes for good reason while others it was just a "follow suit" type situation.

FrontPage 2003 allowed you to do some fantastic things with SharePoint. I guess that's part of the reason that Microsoft went as far as to completely rebrand it to the now "SharePoint Designer 2007". Expression will pick up the slack for (X)HTML/CSS design. In my opinion this move is simply brilliant.

On that note: Goodbye FrontPage, Hello SharePoint Designer 2007

I have been using SharePoint Designer 2007 for a few months now and I have noticed some really great improvements for SharePoint design/development.

I am not certain on what I am allowed to post screenshot wise so I will refrain until I am certain that I am allowed to post screens of the UI and instead touch on a couple of great improvements I have noticed:

1) My personal favorites from the CSS department: Much better CSS management. Better CSS Editing. CSS Templates available from the "new" menu. Much nicer CSS management, classes are exposed in a list - you can break apart (grouped) selectors, jump-to the stylesheet and line to edit the code by right clicking on a selector as well as many other great additions.

2) Color Coding, Intellisense and Margin Managment!

3) Great ASP.NET Controls built in for menus, web parts etc.

4) Common Tasks - If you add a data-view for example you are presented with a panel of common tasks which are likely to be used, great addition.

There are a tonne of great new featuers these are just a few. I have screenshots of about 10 great things I have uncovered but unless I hear that I can definately post UI shots I will hold off for now.

Posted by Shane at March 22, 2006 05:29 PM

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Hey there Shane,

I came across your site looking for Sharepoint and CSS info, and I must say you have a GREAT wealth of information here!

I am posting this comment because I have actually been contracted to re-design a corporate SharePoint site, and I am researching how to do that in the best possible manner. I read about this SharePoint Designer 2007, however I couldn't find much info on it. If you are able to, maybe you could drop my an e-mail, or post something over at my site, http://georgem.name with more info on this fantastic sounding program!

Now all we need is for MS to release the next version of Sharepoint which is purely CSS-based (i hope!!)

Thanks!

georgeM

Posted by: georgeM at March 22, 2006 10:22 PM

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