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Sites with indicators include SharePoint 2010, Reuters, and Google.

Making DHTML Menus Suck Less

By Chris Poteet on June 3, 2010

There are design­ers on both sides of the DHTML menu issue. Some are lib­eral to use them and have no issue with them, and there are oth­ers (includ­ing myself) who think it’s not the ideal solu­tion to a nav­i­ga­tional struc­ture. Nav­i­ga­tion is unques­tion­ably the most impor­tant part of any web appli­ca­tion, and if it is […]

Posted in Design, Information Architecture, Usability, User Experience, User Interface | Tagged best practice, dhtml, javascript, menus, navigation | Leave a response

An excerpt of the 2010 core CSS file.

SharePoint 2010 and XHTML Validation

By Chris Poteet on January 9, 2010

I’m writ­ing this and another post about doing devel­op­ment on the Share­Point user inter­face and the over­all user expe­ri­ences to dis­play some of my dis­ap­point­ment with issues I thought would’ve been resolved in this upcom­ing ver­sion. Microsoft has said on record they are sup­port­ing browsers that are XHTML 1.0 com­pli­ant, and they haven’t said officially […]

Posted in Design, SharePoint, User Interface | Tagged 2010, best practice, CSS, development, doctype, javascript, Standards, validation, Web Design, xhtml | Leave a response

The Folder-Less SharePoint Paradigm

The Folder-Less SharePoint Paradigm

By Chris Poteet on March 9, 2009

When some­one first shows me how they’re using Share­Point I look for a sure sign whether they under­stand and have imple­mented the Share­Point par­a­digm to doc­u­ment management—I look for a folder. Granted using an occa­sional folder here and there is not the end of the world and doesn’t prove some­one doesn’t know how to use […]

Posted in Content Management, Findability, Information Architecture, SharePoint | Tagged Adoption, best practice, content types, folder, metadata, views | 11 Responses

The Wikipedia Manual of Style: A Study in Governance

By Chris Poteet on November 22, 2008

Gov­er­nance is a fan­tas­tic idea. In fact, it is absolutely crit­i­cal to the con­tin­ued suc­cess of an appli­ca­tion. There are times that gov­er­nance, to me, seems to be a great idea on paper, but in prac­tice it’s very dif­fi­cult to imple­ment. I was talk­ing to some­one the other day on the topic of gov­er­nance, and […]

Posted in Information Architecture, User Experience | Tagged Administration, Adoption, best practice, collaboration, governance, wikipedia | Leave a response

My Tweets

  • RT @shawnshell: Does someone in the Columbus, OH area have #AgilePoint experience? If so, I have a client referral for you. about 5 hours ago from Echofon
  • I am still sad XHTML 2 didn't go anywhere. To me that spells the end of the "entire web as XML dream" unless something changes it. 01:56:50 PM August 26, 2010 from Echofon
  • When you create a web part view on a list, use that list web part on a page with that view, does it not update when altering the view? 07:06:48 PM August 24, 2010 from Echofon

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