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Recently, the Internet Explorer team released IE 8 beta 2.  It’s a monumental leap forward for not only web designers but also the Internet.  However, it is not without controversy, but first it needs a little background. A Little Background Internet Explorer has for a long time been the bane of web developers.  Every since they won the browser war over Netscape (nearing a decade ago now) with what were judged unethical and illegal means which led to a monopoly investigation.  That was settled and Microsoft allowed to continue.  Since then web designers have had to hack, glue, and curse IE due (read more...)

If you spend anytime at all doing interface design work you know the value-added from wireframes early on in the development process. It helps to point the customer to what’s important in the early-going, namely, labels, location of content, navigation, etc while not worrying about the font or what color the background is going to be. It’s this stage that information architects flex their muscles. I have created a wireframe for MOSS 2007. It is based on the master page that comes out-of-the-box with SharePoint 2007. If you want to make it WSS-specific, all you really have (read more...)

You’ve been tasked with bringing some order to the chaos of your various organizations’ file shares, e-mail servers, and externally facing websites. After all the research and analysis you’ve done you’ve decided that MOSS 2007 is the optimal solution to solve the problem. The problem? Selling it to management. You can demo MOSS with all its fantastic features and Office integration, but your management needs some “bullet point” reasons why they should invest in MOSS. In Essential SharePoint 2007* the authors lay out the “four C’s” of company portals that MOSS can satisfy. These can be (read more...)

Bob Mixon’s class on deploying SharePoint in the enterprise is now being offered online. It will next be delivered on July 7th. It’s a great opportunity to be exposed to ideas such as enterprise information architecture, governance, and implementing SharePoint without the travel! Register Today (read more...)

When I started becoming interested in the SharePoint world I was immediately drawn to the end-user adoption of the technology. I came across Mark Miller’s blog EndUserSharePoint.com, and I was instantly hooked in. The articles stay away from the ethereal issues that implementers get caught in and stick with the questions that are pertinent to users that are actually using the application. I contacted Mark to contribute to his fantastic catalog of contributors, and he passed some my way. In the last week I handled questions from two users already! One deals with a technical use of (read more...)