SharePoint Designer for free? Yes!
As I’ve mentioned earlier, the SPD can be downloaded from Microsoft for free.
All you have to do is register before you can download the SharePoint Designer.
So don’t wait, and get it 🙂 Please remember, that if you modify a SharePoint page, it will be stored in the database and loose its reference to the template. This is called unghosted. Joel Oleson has written a great article about this.