The user interface improvements in SharePoint 2010 as a whole are truly amazing. Microsoft has brought this already impressive product leaps and bounds in terms of accessibility, standards, and usability

In the spectrum of project management tools, SharePoint’s task list provides a good balance between simplicity of design and ease of use on the one hand, and power and extensibility on the other.

Workflows are a great feature in SharePoint 2010 that allows, for instance, your business rules to be performed in a consistent and repeatable manner.

And it is time to really check out what this great combination has to offer. The most obvious is that we can now use Visio to design the workflows, which then are imported to SharePoint via SharePoint Designer 2010.

This series will cover most of the connection points between SharePoint 2010 and Visio 2010, starting with the demo friendly workflow creation using the Visio to SharePoint Designer 2010 integration.

This article is going to group the rest of the options within our Custom Actions drop-down in SharePoint Designer 2010 together, as they are all basically doing the same thing, adding an item to the Ribbon UI, just for different forms (View, Edit, New, and Display).

In SharePoint 2010, it is easier than ever to add custom actions that are scoped to a specific list using SharePoint Designer 2010.

This article is the third in the series trying to demystify all that SharePoint Designer 2010 has to offer

This article will dig into working with specifically the settings and customizations you can make at the SharePoint site level using SPD