Category: SharePoint

Sep 27, 2011

Advanced Metadata Techniques in Page Layouts

SharePoint page layouts get ugly in edit mode. Splitting metadata into read-only display and a dedicated editing zone fixes the experience.
Aug 18, 2011

Usability Testing: Why Aren’t We Doing It?

A presentation on why usability testing is absent from most SharePoint projects, with a live test and analysis included.
Jun 22, 2011

SharePoint Designer Modifies HTML On Save

SharePoint Designer silently removes closing tags and inserts unwanted characters on save. Here are the workarounds for both issues.
Jun 15, 2011

Adding the Top-Level Site Title as a Navigational Aid

Using an AspMenu with jQuery to display the parent site title above the quick launch as a navigational aid in SharePoint.
Jun 2, 2011

A New Blog and Published Articles

Launching a new blog dedicated to SharePoint’s experience oddities, plus two published articles on enterprise keywords and making search not suck.
May 23, 2011

Visual Demonstration of Folders vs. Metadata for Classification

A video walkthrough showing why metadata and content types beat folders for classifying content in SharePoint.
Apr 15, 2011

Upcoming IA Webinars with MetaVis

Two webinars with MetaVis on information architecture design for SharePoint migrations, covering file share moves and upgrade cleanups.
Mar 8, 2011

Default Header and Navigation on My Sites and Search Center

Microsoft left the header and navigation off My Sites and the search center. Here are master pages that restore consistency.
Feb 25, 2011

Sample Information Architecture Design Process for Migration

A walkthrough of a fictional file share migration into SharePoint, focused on the questions and decisions behind building a proper information architecture.
Nov 2, 2010

Using hMailServer with SharePoint

Setting up hMailServer as a lightweight SMTP relay for SharePoint development environments, because Exchange is too heavy for testing.