Yes, you can create workflows for SharePoint lists in SharePoint Designer, but they aren't the most robust workflows you may need for your organization.

Instead, you'll use Visio to create a reusable workflow template you can then import into SharePoint Designer where you'll complete the workflow.

The task list will create tasks for the approval process and history list will log messages for the workflow. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 3. Adding BudgetApprovalWorkflow Automatically ...

SharePoint workflows are based on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) which is a base set of technologies that programmers can access using Visual Studio or SharePoint Designer. There are two types ...

Sometimes it might be necessary for an Excel user to share data with SharePoint. Using add-ins it is possible to incorporate data from an Excel spreadsheet into SharePoint Designer workflow, and ...

SharePoint 2013 workflows for automating common business processes can be deployed as SharePoint apps built using Visual Studio.