Installing SharePoint Designer
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We begin installation by inserting the installation media (e.g. DVD). We then enter our product key and click the Continue button.
Note - If our installation does not autorun, then we will need to start the installation by double-clicking on the setup icon.
Next, we carefully read all ten thousand words of the license agreement, tick the checkbox to say that we accept the terms of the agreement, and click the Continue button.
On the next screen, we have the option of installing the default configuration by clicking the Install Now button or of customizing our installation.
Virtually all of SharePoint Designer is installed by default. If we were to click on the Customize button, we would be able to install additional Office features such as Japanese font support and proofing tools. We would also be able to specify an alternative file location and provide different user information.
We will opt for the default setup by clicking the Install Now button (it is, after all, larger than the other button, so would seem to be the one that Microsoft would like us to opt for).
The installation program then spends about three minutes (or longer if we have a slow computer), installing SharePoint Designer on our system. Once it is finished, we can click on the Close button.
We can then start SharePoint Designer by going to Start | All Programs | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
If we are using another website editing program on our computer, SharePoint Designer will ask us if we would like to make SharePoint Designer our default editor.
SharePoint Designer will then present us with the activation wizard. Let's go ahead and activate our product. We are now ready to use SharePoint Designer.
[edit] Connecting to an Existing SharePoint Site
Now that we have successfully installed SharePoint Designer on our machine, we can open up an existing SharePoint site from anywhere on our network, the Internet, or our local computer.
To open a site, we go to File | Open Site.
This will present us with the Open Site dialog. We simply type the name of our site (e.g. http://olmec/) into the Site name field and click Open. Note that by default, the default SharePoint site name will be the server address (i.e. http://servername/).
SharePoint Designer should then connect to our SharePoint site and list the files and folders in the Web Site pane in the center of the designer and in the Folder List task pane on the left of the designer.
Note - We can only connect to our site if our network login has the necessary permissions to open the SharePoint site. If it does not, then we will be prompted to use a login with the necessary permissions.
[edit] Additional References
For instructions on editing Style Sheets in SharePoint Designer, click here
[edit] Source
The source of this content is Chapter 1: Introduction to SharePoint of SharePoint Designer Tutorial by Mike Poole (Packt Publishing, 2008).
