When you need to add content to your site, one of the best choices is to use a Web Part page. Using this type of a page, you can add your custom text, web parts and also views of your lists and libraries – all directly using SharePoint Designer. This video shows you how you can do all of this and also mentions the things you should watch out for while creating your pages.

Watch this video to find out the difference between closing a web part and deleting it.

Publishing sites are usually used to publish content on a large Intranet or an Internet site. There are plenty of consumers for this type of site and only a few contributors. On the other hand, a Team site has many contributors who collaborate effectively with each other on documents, announcements, and other artificats. This video shows the differences between the two types of sites.

Publishing pages are modified by a few and read by many. They are used in publishing sites that are usually internet sites. It is a good practice to put a publishing page through a workflow before it is published to be consumed by everyone. In this video, you will see how this process works.

SharePoint Designer can be used to create all types of SharePoint Lists. This video demonstrates how you can create a Contacts list and then modify its schema to use list columns and site columns.

Custom Actions can be created by Power Users, Designers or Administrators of a site using SharePoint Designer. Once created, Custom Actions provide an easy way for the end user to navigate to an existing list form, to execute a workflow or to navigate to a URL.

Branding a page to look like the rest of the site is easy to do with SharePoint Designer. If you have a page that you created from scratch or in which you copied the content from a different site or from a document, you can easily provide that page the matching look and feel for the rest of the site by attaching the Master Page of that site to it.

The Master Page for a site provides the chrome for it. The quick launch navigation, site banner, logos, and the top link bar are all part of the master page. This video shows how you can use SharePoint Designer to easily switch to any of the existing master pages on the site. The example used here is how you can switch to the default.master master page to give your site the look and feel of a SharePoint 2007 site.

Site Columns and Content Types can be created easily using SharePoint Designer. This video first explains why you should use site columns and content types. Then you see a scenario in which a site column is created then associated with a content type. The content type is then used in a document library.

Site images should be stored in the Site Assets library and can be inserted on any page within the site. This video shows how to work with images on SharePoint sites using SharePoint Designer.