Use SharePoint Designer 2010 to show list or library information from one site onto another site within the same site collection.

Using SharePoint Designer 2010, a web part on any SharePoint page can be published to the web part gallery of the site collection. Once the web part has been published to the gallery, any site administrator or designer of a site within the site collection can add the web part to their site using either the browser or SharePoint Designer.

Web Part connections allow you to connect information on one web part to another web part. You can do this through the browser, but only when the connections interface is available and even if it is available, you can only make connections to web parts on the same page. SharePoint Designer lets you make web part connections for all types web parts. Also, you can make connections from a web part on one page to another one on a different page.

There are times when you want information on a SharePoint page to not be updatable using the browser by anyone. The information could be text, images, lists, libraries or web parts. You can create a page like that using SharePoint Designer. This page will then be only updatable by anyone who can get to it using SharePoint Designer. All others, no matter what their privileges are, will not be able to change any information on the page using the browser.

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.

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.

The External Content Types (ECT) section within SharePoint Designer lets us define connections to Line of Business data that we have access to as a developer, designer or admin of that site. Once the connection is defined, business analysts can use that connection to create what’s called External Lists which shows the content of what the connection is attached to (for example a table in a database). ECTs are core to the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) functionality in SharePoint 2010.