Instead, this is about one use of a component that has been a part of SharePoint (under various names) since it was called the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit – The Web Part Page Services Component (WPSC). I devote a whole chapter in my book to using this and other client-side components, but briefly, the WPSC is a set of JavaScript objects and functions that allow Web Parts to communicate with SharePoint, each other, and your users.

I was walking down 5th Avenue in New York City today, jumped into the oldest Barnes and Noble known to mankind and found a couple friends sitting on the shelf. Michael Sampson is leading our online SharePoint Study Group using Seamless Teamwork, while Woody is contributing articles and excerpts from his SharePoint Designer 2007 book.
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One of the most frustrating things about designing for the Web is the wide array of browsers and screen formats in which your site may be displayed. SharePoint Designer helps mitigate this problem by giving you several preview options.

Human beings are creatures of habit. Once we become accustomed to certain ways of doing things, we want to keep doing them, even if "something better" comes along. I firmly believe that SharePoint Designer is one of those something(s) better. So much so, that I wrote a book about it.
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