Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Microsoft EAN: 0882224165358 Format: CD-ROM Label: Microsoft Software Manufacturer: Microsoft Software Model: 79Q-00007 Publisher: Microsoft Software Release Date: January 30, 2007 Sales Rank: 2011 Studio: Microsoft Software
Features:
Provides the tools you need to build, customize, and contribute to SharePoint sites using the latest Web design technologies
Offers extensive support for ASP.NET 2.0, cascading style sheets, and Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation
Next-generation Microsoft Web technologies help increase productivity while giving you the freedom to create sites that look exactly how you want them
Integrate business data and build SharePoint Web pages that present and edit data coming from SharePoint lists and document libraries, XML files, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Web services, and enterprise systems
Workflow Designer lets you automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks
Useless manual
I am supposed to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to update the web pages monthly for a non-profit organization. After exploring the menus and the manual, I still don't know how and where to start. I usually can figure out in a short time how to use new software however complicated, such as QuarkExpress, InDesign, PageMaker, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Dream Weaver, Front Page, etc., by exploring the menus and the samples with the help of its manual.
Lacks documentation
The online documentation provided is pitiful. Surely a company with the resources Microsoft has can do better than this?? The product works great, has some nice features, like the workflows, but the provided documentation is a joke, more geared towards selling you microsoft-isms (and that "you don't have to write a line of code!") than telling you how to use their product. And the online help is similarly sparse.
Where are the instructions???
The program is great once you learn to use it. It comes with no guides. The online instructions are a little hard to find and lacking in detail. All of the third party books ("For Dummies") don't come out for months. Does anyone else remember when programs used to come with a "How To" Guide????
