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Watch this screencast to learn more about using the Workflow Designer.

Are you a developer? Get a high-level overview of how Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 implements the workflow capabilities of the Windows Workflow Foundation.

Quickly design a workflow that sends an e-mail message to any team member when they receive an assignment. Just follow the steps in this example.

Get tips and tricks and best practices for working with SharePoint Designer directly from the SharePoint Designer team.

This six-part demo series provides information on how you can get the most from Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

Do you use SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and customize page layouts in a SharePoint Server 2007 publishing site? This articles gives you an overview of the page model.

This article explains the structure of master pages, the steps to create a custom master page, and more.

This article examines the features of a SharePoint Server 2007 publishing site from an administrative perspective, including configuring a site for anonymous access.

Learn how to customize both master pages and content pages in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.

Watch this developer-oriented video from the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006 on using SharePoint Designer 2007 to build no-code solutions.

Watch this developer-oriented video from the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006 on using SharePoint Designer 2007 to customize your SharePoint sites.

This topic shows you how to create a minimal master page that includes only the minimal functionality that Office SharePoint Server 2007 requires so that you have a stable platform upon which to build your own master pages. Creating a minimal master page can help you avoid the time-consuming process of backing code out of a pre-existing .master page such as BlueBand.master, or removing functionality, and then building it back in to suit your customization needs. You can, of course, create a master page from scratch. However, we generally do not recommend this because a truly empty master page does not include all the content placeholders that the Office SharePoint Server 2007 page model needs to work correctly.

Learn how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to build productive and efficient solutions on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. In this webcast, we explain how you can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and deploy interactive Web solutions on the SharePoint platform—without writing any code. We also describe how to build reporting and tracking applications and collaborative workflows, and show you how to customize Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services application templates.

Application templates are out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size. They can be applied to a task, such as managing a help desk or tracking a marketing campaign, to easily create a dedicated Web-based application for a more efficient and effective way of working.

Microsoft has made available a package of four sample master page sets that were built using the new CSS and Master Page editing tools in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. The sample master pages provide a variety of instant styles ready to be applied to your SharePoint site. The download includes four master page sets; each set has a distinctive look and feel and comes in five color variations: blue, orange, red, purple, and green.

SharePoint Designer 2007 is a great tool for designing, developing, and customizing your Business Applications in Office Live. In this screencast Albert Shen, a software design engineer on the Office Live team, will show you the various capabilities in SharePoint Designer and how you can use them with Office Live.

Learn how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create custom page layouts for your publishing site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

In this Microsoft Office Live screencast, Albert Shen shows you how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to build powerful views of your business data, and integrate them into your Office Live Business Applications. The Data Form Web Part can consume data from various data sources, including SharePoint lists, SharePoint libraries, server-side scripts, RSS feeds, XML files, databases, Web services, or an aggregation of these sources. Using ASP.NET 2.0 data source controls, the Data Form Web Part retrieves data as an XML document, and then uses XSLT to transform the data for the browser.

In this Microsoft Office Live screencast, Albert Shen shows you how to add workflows to Office Live Business Applications using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Office Live is built on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and, as a result, leverages the powerful new Windows Workflow Foundation. This screencast builds on the scenario in the "Using the Data Form Web Part in Office Live" screencast by automating the inventory order process with business logic and workflow.

This video covers two customization options that can be performed in the Search Center with Tabs: how to add custom search pages and tabs, and how to replace the XSLT for the search results with a custom XSLT. Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can use the raw XML output to create a custom XSLT. You can make use of the powerful and rich XSLT design experience in Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to generate the XSLT for the Data View Web Part. This custom XSLT can replace the default XSLT that is used by the Search Core Results Web Part. The video illustrates the different steps.