Glimpse about SharePoint Designer 2010 User Interface

There was a demo given by Asif Rehmani - Click the following link:

Asif Rehmani's Demo on the introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010

In this demo, he takes us through the SharePoint Designer 2010 Environment/ User Interface.

• Its a free application available along with Microsoft Office 2010.

• We need to understand that, SharePoint Designer 2010 is not compatible with SharePoint Designer 2007, it means that, the sites that were built SharePoint Server 2007 cannot be opened with SharePoint Designer 2010.

• SharePoint Designer 2010 has a ribbon just like any other MS Office applications like Word etc.,

• We can find a Navigation menu on the left hand side or else we can get the Navigation window from View menu. The ribbon changes depending on the selectin of the menu item in the Navigation window dynamically. for eg., if we are selecting Lists and Libraries in Navigation menu, the ribbon components will change where in it will have options like New Custom List, New SharePoint List, New External List, New Document Libraries etc.,

• There will be a summary page in the middle which has various things available depending on the selection made in the Navigation menu. for eg., Selecting a site shows you the options such as Site Information, Permissions, Customization, Subsites, Settings etc.,