I know, I know…you’ve all been patiently waiting for the next SharePoint post from Darrel. Sorry to keep you waiting! Yes, I know…SharePoint is thrilling and I’m sure you’ve been wearing out your F5 key waiting for this post. (Why does SharePoint drive me to such thick, dripping sarcasm?)
Anyhow, here’s a quick tip that, as [...]
One of the frustrations with a lot of software these days is that the bullet-point feature list in the brochure doesn’t usually tell the whole truth. It omits the ‘but…’ statements that are often critical to have a full understanding of the capabilities of a particular feature.
MOSS is full of these omitted ‘but…’ statements, so [...]
There are so many little things that will drive you nuts with SharePoint the more you use it. One of these things is the admin/edit interface. Traditionally, you have the front-end interface that the audience sees, and you log into an entirely different interface to edit the content. This seems to make sense to me, [...]
I’ve been slowly hacking my way through the jungle that is Microsoft’s SharePoint templating system. A mix of various poorly named technologies and archaic markup.
After I finally realized that part of my problem wast that Microsoft forgot to apply any doctypes to their HTML, I finally made some progress. Yet, I was still baffled by [...]
I know I am.
Seems as if most documentation out there is still focused more on DB/Server admin issues than general ‘how to design a usable portal using MOSS and the various templates and web parts that makes sense to content owners and site users’.
Anyone have any suggestions for documentation (online or off) that talk about [...]
Haven’t had a Friday link-dump in a while. Here ya go:
Type:
St. Paul…er…New Hope…er…UK based Process Type Foundry (Eric Olson) has a new typeface out called Seravek.
Portugal Based DSType Foundry (Dino dos Santos) is having a half-off summer sale. Dino has some great faces that are already affordably priced. Half off is going to make [...]
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) now includes the ability to quickly and easily create Wiki web sites. This is great! Wikis are perfect for documentation, meeting note taking, brainstorming and basically just creating content that a group needs to edit easily.
Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on MOSS features out there. I’ve been hunting everywhere [...]
(Ed. Note: I had intended to expand upon this post some more, but figured that I best just get this out the door, as I may never get to it and I didn’t want the links getting too stale…)
Microsoft SharePoint seems to be penetrating all areas of the web as of late. It’s been around [...]
I just got back from a week in Vegas attending the Microsoft Devconnections conference. Vegas. Fun. Microsoft Convention. Yawn.
But, I went, and feel obligated to report SOMETHING…
For starters, Vegas appears to the single best place on earth to open up a usability testing lab. I can’t think of a place more diversely homogenous (if that [...]