Product Description

The smart way to learn Office SharePoint Designer 2007 one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting tips to master the fundamentals of building customized SharePoint sites and applications. You ll learn how to work with Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 to create Web pages complete with Cascading Style Sheets, Lists, Libraries, and customized Web parts. Then, make your site really work for you by adding data sources, including databases, XML data and Web services, and RSS feeds. You ll even learn how to create workflows and applications with custom forms, templates, and dashboards to enhance your team s productivity. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction, building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes an easy-search companion CD with hands-on practice files, a complete eBook, and more!

Key Book Benefits:

Includes coverage of the fundamentals for building custom SharePoint sites and applications to enhance your productivity

Covers Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007

Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises

Includes an easy-search companion CD with practice files, a complete eBook, and other resources

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2376 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-20
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Penelope Coventry is an independent consultant based in the UK, with more than 25 years of industry experience. She currently focuses on the design, implementation, and development of solutions based on SharePoint Products and Technologies. Penny has co-authored a number of books, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator s Companion, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Step by Step. Penny is frequently seen at Tech Ed and IT forum, either as a Technical Learning guide or on the SharePoint Ask-the-Expert stands. Penny lives in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England with her husband, Peter, and dog, Poppy.

Customer Reviews

Very good learning resrouce for SPD!
There isn't much information out there in print about SharePoint Designer. I got my copy last week and tore through a few of the lesser covered topics in the community (DFWP, contributor settings, reports)... I was very impressed. This is a fantastic resource for those working with SPD!

Beginner
There are different levels of publications. Many publishers print beginner-, intermediate-, and advanced-level books. The Step-by-Step series is for beginners and should be rated accordingly.

An ignorant intermediate-level reader picks up a Step-by-Step publication and rates it four stars because it was good, but beginner. Then an ignorant advanced-level reader picks up the same Step-by-Step book and rates it three stars because it was good, but too beginner.

Pick on your own size and rate according to the target audience.

What the hell?

First for Designer
This is not a bad read for novice instruction. This book does not get into as much detail as our group would have liked seeing in the first book release for this product, but it still provided some good examples and a platform to build upon.
I would definitely suggest it for new site owners that need to be able to make custom changes and do not have much of experience with this kind of product. Experienced web designers will not get much of a benefit from this book.