Would you like a brilliant, professional, WYSIWYG, standards-compliant web design tool that once had a suggested retail price of $US299 for free? You probably want to take a look at it, right? Would you be even more eager to take a look at it if you could build highly complex web pages like this…

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What if it offered features such as HTML optimisation, ftp synch and transfer, website templates, browser preview, global find and replace within pages and within source code, support for ASP .NET, internal and external link verification…?

Microsoft have made SharePoint Designer 2007 available free of charge. Despite it’s name, SharePoint Designer 2007 doesn’t require you to have an expensive SharePoint Server installation. It’s simply brilliant, it works, and it’s free.

SharePoint Designer 2010 will not work without a SharePoint server so don’t bother with that edition. Get SharePoint Designer 2007 while you can, though SharePoint 2007 will be around for a while because it is used by numerous large corporations who are slow to migrate to the latest and greatest versions of software.

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