SharePoint Designer 2007
Configuring SharePoint Designer
For our requirements, we need to change only a few options.
- Click on the menu Tools | Application Options, this opens the options window. Next, click on the tab “General”. .
- Remove all checkmarks under this tab except for -
- Open last web automatically when SharePoint Designer starts
- Show Status bar
Page Properties
The Page Properties dialog box is used to set the attributes of newly created or existing web pages. These attributes include adding a page title, format changes, and positioning a page in a web browser.
To access these attributes open a web page and then:
- Click on the menu File | Properties
- Right-click anywhere inside the page’s window, and choose Page Properties from the short-cut menu
The Page Properties dialog box contains six tabs: General, Formatting, Advanced, Custom, Language, and Workgroup. Although each of these tabs control different page attributes most users require only the attributes listed under General.
The General tab
Location: 
This read-only text box displays the location (URL) of the open page. The location in the caption shows that the page exists as a file located on my hard drive. file:///C:/wellness/Adapt.html.
Breaking the location down further specifies that the page “ADABT.html” is located on the C-drive in a directory called “wellness”.
Title: Enter the page’s title in this box. The title identifies the name of the page in the web browser’s title bar.
Page Description: Typing a short description about your web page allows SharePoint to add a description tag inside the code, which is stored in some search engines. If your description matches a users query it will be added to the search results.
Keywords: Enter any words that best describe your page here. Place a comma between each word limiting them to seven; most search engines categorize only the first seven words. SharePoint Designer adds a keyword tag inside the code that is detected and stored by a search engine to produce search results from a user.
Base location: Leave this area blank. It is rarely used even by advanced users.
Default Target Frame: Used to update pages that appear within a frame page. A frame page is a web page that is divided into two or more sections. When a user clicks on a navigation link, the new page opens within the frame.
The Custom tab
The controls for this tab are designed for advanced users to control system and user designed variables.
- Click on the Add button and then enter the name Refresh.
- In the box value type 10; URL=http://www.scranton.edu. The variable Refresh can be used to redirect the current page to another page. You would use this variable in a Splash page or to redirect from a page that is no longer existent. The 10 stands for the number of seconds before the page refreshes to the assigned URL.
Note: A Splash page could be a high-tech promotion or ad page used to promote a web site or product before moving on to the content pages.