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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.
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Using hMailServer with SharePoint
Setting up hMailServer as a lightweight SMTP relay for SharePoint development environments, because Exchange is too heavy for testing.
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Adding Edit Dialog to a Data Form Web Part
SharePoint’s Data Form Web Part drops the edit dialog by default. Here’s the JavaScript you need to bring it back.
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Faking Exchange Support in OS X Leopard
OS X Leopard has no native Exchange support, so I stitched together Entourage, IMAP, and Dock Dodger to make Mail.app and iCal work anyway.
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The Pains of Altering the SharePoint UI
SharePoint’s default UI is built on table layouts, uncommented CSS, and obtrusive JavaScript. Branding it is an exercise in pain management.
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Contributions to End User SharePoint
I started contributing to EndUserSharePoint.com, answering real questions about view filtering and driving end-user adoption.
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Browsing SharePoint Sites in Firefox With IE Tab
SharePoint doesn’t play well outside Internet Explorer. The IE Tab extension for Firefox is the workaround that keeps you sane.
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Better SEO Titles in WordPress 2.5
A bane of WordPress development for a long time were the awful titles generated for blog posts. In this post I discuss some PHP code to generate better titles for your WordPress blog.
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Form Layouts With CSS
Developers who have made peace with CSS layout still reach for tables when they hit a form. A worked example that lays one out with semantic markup and the clear property instead.
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jQuery: JavaScript That Doesn’t Suck
I hated JavaScript until jQuery let me select DOM elements with CSS syntax. In this post I cover selectors, toggles, Ajax requests, and appending content, with code for each.