SharePoint Designer Introduction—Customize MOSS Sites

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Customizing MOSS Sites

To begin customizing MOSS with SharePoint Designer, you should start by getting more familiar with the general user interface layout of the application itself. Figure 5-1 shows the basic SharePoint Designer interface with a master page open.

The resolution of all the screenshots are from a 1024×768 monitor for this book. You will be thankful if your resolution is larger or if you have a dual monitor setup, as working with MOSS involves a lot of screen real estate.

Figure 5.1

First make sure you have SharePoint Designer installed and open it up. (It is usually located under Start -> Microsoft Office -> SharePoint Designer 2007.) When first started, SharePoint Designer will have no open document and the task panes will be located in their default positions. You will tour the various aspects of the product throughout this chapter, but they may make more sense to you if you have a MOSS site open.

If you do not have a MOSS server available to you, you can follow Tony Zink’s lengthy but excellent 20 step guide to creating a MOSS 2007 VPC image at: http://www.pptspaces.com/sharepointreporterblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=28