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Use this roadmap as a starting point to learn about the broad capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and how to complete common tasks as a contributor to a SharePoint site.

Download a simple file to get the grand tour of the latest features and changes, including automated workflows to track approval cycles, business dashboards showing how well you are performing on your goals, and syncing documents to Outlook.

Workflows can help improve your team's efficiency. Learn the workflow basics here.

Ready to design your first workflow? Get the steps here.

Design a workflow for a form library by following the steps in this example.

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.