SharePoint Designer Workflows can be easily attached to custom lists in SharePoint and use the data in that list within the workflow. A bunch of different actions/activities are portrayed in this workflow. Also shown is the method for storing email text in a variable that can be reused as needed.

This video demonstrates how you can attach a SharePoint Designer Workflow to a Data View web part. Doing this will let you execute a workflow on any item being displayed in the Data View web part.

List View web parts (LVWP) are used to show list data on SharePoint site pages. These can be customized using the browser or through SharePoint Designer. SharePoint Designer customizations to List View Web Parts are far more powerful than doing it through the browser. This video shows how you can thoroughly customize a LVWP to implement a customized view, searching capability and connecting one LVWP to another one on a different page.

Use the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer to manage multiple list content. Connecting information from one list to another, passing parameters, editing data back in the list and more is covered in this video.

In this video, a Microsoft Word form is first converted to an InfoPath form then the InfoPath form is enhanced with Validation, Conditional Formatting and Rules to fetch data from a SharePoint list.

Subsequently, the form is published to the Forms Server in SharePoint. Lastly, a workflow is created using SharePoint Designer to automate the processing of the form.

Web Part pages do not show the Quick Launch bar by default. This can be really confusing to end users who are used to the convenience of navigating using the Quick Launch bar. You can use SharePoint Designer to override this setting and show the Quick Launch bar on a Web Part page.

SharePoint Designer can be used in a WSS or MOSS environment to perform robust customizations to look and feel, and content for the site. This video provides an overview to Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

Lists and libraries can be hidden from end users using SharePoint Designer. This does not secure the list or library, but just makes it invisible so that end users are unable to navigate to it.

This video shows how the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer can be used to create a Quote of the Day web part that can be driven off automatically using a list on the SharePoint site.

Views of Lists that come out of the box are limited in nature. This video shows how the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer can be used to customize List View pages.