SharePoint Designer 2007 Positioning

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Sharepoint Experiences :: Brazilian SPS MVP — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:15:24 GMT

Hi all, I would like to share some information on Sharepoint Designer 2007 , an essential tool for professionals

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Karen Melville — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:18:46 GMT

Well, how lovely for you .. however, you've left group 4 (thousands of non-techy people maintaining all those little web sites around the world) in a bit of a hole. FrontPage was just fine for us and now we have no natural successor to hand. So you've driven me to go back to my old computer and curse the day I bought Vista .. another triumph you can congratulate yourselves on. You turned a big Microsoft fan into a dissatisfied customer.

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spdblog — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:40:01 GMT

Hi Karen,

I'm really curious about what features you want to use that we did not include in SharePoint Designer. We had hoped that we wouldn't completely abandon people who were happy with FrontPage. But what we may have done is hidden some features you need and you can't find them.

I'd love to understand what we did to your productivity to make better decisions in the future.

-John

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Sue — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:32:37 GMT

Why or why does MS continually take a good product and REINVENT it to crap (ie: windows xp to vista). Instead of continuing to upgrade and add new themes, plug-ins, etc to FrontPage, you drag us down the 'buy a new product' road.

I'm sick and tired of dishing out more and more money so Bill & Linda, and all the other ShareHolders at MS can get richer and richer. Can't you all support US for a change?

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Stefan Keir Gordon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:35:40 GMT

Sue,

While SharePoint Designer is a non-perfect product, it is certainly not 'reinvented'. It's a name change from FrontPage to Designer, for marketing purposes and to reflect new functionality related to sharepoint. To explain in your terms, it's actually the same old crap, with new features. :)

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Ramnik — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:42:19 GMT

Being a designer, Ive just purchased Sharepoint Designer 2007 assuming I can design dynamic web site. Reading this article tells me that the Sharepoint Designer is used to create "composite SharePoint applications!!!"

... I now find myself reading above that Microsoft Expression Web is for designers above and am left wondering Have I purchased the tool tool for the job.

Please fill me in because at this moment in time I dont understand what Sharepoint Desginer is anymore and I cant understand when, how and where Sharepoint Expression came into all this.

Confused Designer

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James C. Hess — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:40:32 GMT

I have now spent more than six hours trying to use SharePoint 2007, and at this point I am NOT inclined to recommend it to anyone for any reason. First, I was not told that to utilize it I had to also have SharePoint Designer 2007. After I downloaded that I had to redo it because the installation instructions were WRONG.

And now I came to the Designer 2007 problems: I followed the download instructions to use SharePoint Designer 2007 to the letter, only to find under "Instructions for use" the very last step - 'Set as Default Master Page' does NOT work.

Thank you very much for nothing.

jchess2005@hotmail.com

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Harry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:25:20 GMT

Hi, I am new to Sharepoint Designer 2007, i want to design a workflow (like a team calender where team members can put their events or vacations). In the HELP it is written that I have to go FILE/NEW/WORKFLOW to start it but I couldn't find WORKFLOW option under FILE/NEW. Please help me ASAP as what the problem exactly is. Thanks

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Al Mundy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:40:39 GMT

I am a longtime frontpage user and have upgraded to SPD 2007. I cannot now find any way to use the themes that were in frontpage. I click to change the background and it says I can't because I'm using theme BUT, I can't find those themes in designer 2007. Obviously, I'm missing something here. I develop my webpage on my own computer then publish it to a server. Things dissapear when I do that now and I'm VERY frustrated with SPD2007.