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The SharePoint Grade Card

I have now had a much larger exposure to SharePoint’s product offering, and I feel in a much better and knowledgeable place to assess the strength and weaknesses of the technology.  Like any product that attempts to serve a wide range of functionality there are going to be stronger and weaker areas.  One thing the SP team at Microsoft does well is addressing shortfalls in the technology as it matures. I’ll evaluate each of, what I deem to be, the major functions and tools of SharePoint.  OK, let’s get started. Windows SharePoint Services - A Windows SharePoint Services or WSS is now in (read more...)

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A Primer on Information Architecture: Introduction

Information Architecture (IA) is one of the most important and exciting concepts in designing applications, but it also one of the least understood by a majority of designers, programmers, business analysts, etc. Hopefully through the following overview of the major concepts and benefits you can immediately improve both the utility and finabitliy of information in your application. After all, content (information) is the most important thing to any application so doesn’t it deserve some foresight? Defining Information Architecture (IA) The Findability Flower The Information Architecture Institute has the following definition to begin our study. They define IA as: The structural design of shared information (read more...)

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