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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 | 46 Responses

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