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Adding the Top-Level Site Title as a Navigational Aid

By Chris Poteet on June 15, 2011

I’ve had an interesting requirement show up in the last few projects. All of them were public-facing, and they wanted to have a navigational aid above the quick launch to show the top-level site title. In other words, if the site is contained within a top-level site called “What We Know,” then above the quick […]

Posted in SharePoint, User Interface | Tagged asp.net, jquery, navigation | Leave a response

Visual Demonstration of Folders vs. Metadata for Classification

By Chris Poteet on May 23, 2011

Of all the posts I’ve done on this blog relating to SharePoint, my article denouncing folders is by far the most popular. I later wrote about improvements to folders in 2010, and this video is a culmination of those two posts. I was asked in the comments on the former post about a visual representation […]

Posted in Content Management, Findability, Information Architecture, SharePoint | Tagged content types, folders, metadata, navigation, views | 13 Responses

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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

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