SharePoint Designer Tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites: Get started with SharePoint Designer to put together a business site with SharePoint

I got this book because of it's claim of putting together a business site with sharepoint designer. Others said the book covered the basics which I did not need but was not concerned about. What the book does is show you how to create a web site using SharePoint designer, NOT how to create a SharePoint web site! I could have created their business site using any html program. I am none the wiser as to how to use SharePoint designer to create, modify and customize a site running on a SharePoint Server. Very little on Outlook integration, and they only use an XML file as a data source! I don't know about the rest of the world but I connect SharePoint to a SQL database. My main interest was to modify a few pages to add extra fields and arrange then to suite my needs, not the most advanced thing but this book did not help at all.