Welcome back to our Getting Started with Sharepoint Designer series. These tutorials assume that you have some experience with HTML and CSS, but none with Sharepoint Designer or hosted Sharepoint Services.
Last time, we downloaded Sharepoint Designer and hooked it up to our hosted Sharepoint account. We also created a blank Sharepoint site, ready to customize to our desires. This time, we are going to learn about customizing your blank website and prepare it for content.
First things first: we need to start up Sharepoint Designer if it’s not going already. Navigate to “file” and choose open site. Type in the URL of the site we created last time and click go. You’ll have to log in, so do so, and we will get the site directory structure in the main window. Double-click on the file named “default.aspx”, and it will open in the design window.
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