On February 1, 2008, CMS WiRE reported that according to Microsoft’s reported financials, SharePoint had become Microsoft’s “billon dollar baby.” One month earlier, IDC, the Framingham, MA, market research company, reported that 2008 should see an explosion of SharePoint and SharePoint-related technology. SharePoint Designer Bible introduces readers to this new version of FrontPage, then quickly gets them up to speed with SharePoint basics like understanding related server technologies and remote authoring. Then, readers will move on to actually developing Web pages with SharePoint Designer by learning about the SPD environment, laying out Web pages, and working with graphics and animation components. Topics like Javascript, DHTML, implementing FrontPage legacy components, and ASP.NET controls are covered next, followed by information-packed chapters on designing Web pages.
