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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

Edit Dialog

Adding Edit Dialog to a Data Form Web Part

By Chris Poteet on March 19, 2009

A client asked me to cre­ate a roll-up of some doc­u­ment libraries, and I decided to exer­cise the data form web part. It worked fine until I was asked why he got an open/save dia­log and not the stan­dard Share­Point read-only/edit dia­log from doc­u­ment libraries as to the right. After some help from some Twit­ter folk […]

Posted in Design, SharePoint, Tutorials, User Interface | Tagged data form, javascript, page, SharePoint Designer, wcm, web part | 2 Responses

Hirschs Branding Effort

The Pains of Altering the SharePoint UI

By Chris Poteet on October 10, 2008

I was recently tagged to “brand” a Share­Point instal­la­tion for Hirsch Pipe & Sup­ply Co.  I knew it would be an inter­est­ing chal­lenge, but I had no idea how bad it truly would be. Share­Point is built on ASP.NET 2.0 which I had worked with in my pre­vi­ous job. I found ASP.NET very pow­er­ful and flexible. […]

Posted in Design, SharePoint, Tutorials, Usability, User Interface | Tagged asp.net, branding, CSS, javascript, jquery, master pages, Web Design | 7 Responses

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  • 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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