Best Intranets of 2007 …

By shane.perran in : SharePoint 2007 // Jan 20 2007

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Information property of Jakob Nielsen, Usability Expert.  Summary: This year’s winners emphasized an editorial approach to news on the homepage. They also took a pragmatic approach to many hyped “Web 2.0″ techniques. While page design is getting more standardized, there’s no agreement on CMS or technology platforms for good intranet design. The 10 best-designed intranets [...]

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Enforcing Consistent Workspaces with Preferred Templates and Page Layouts

By shane.perran in : SharePoint 2007 // Jan 19 2007

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This is a topic I have not seen a lot of discussion on so perhaps it could fall under a “did you know” category. In Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can specify preferred templates, and page layouts.  Basically what this means is you can tell your site to allow only specific site templates, and page [...]

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Internet Explorer Toolbar Beta 3 Released.

By shane.perran in : SharePoint 2007 // Jan 14 2007

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I stand by the fact that one the best tools available for SharePoint Customization is the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar.  This tool has recently seen a new version released (BETA3). The IE Dev Toolbar let’s you do things like quickly view your pages in different resolutions, outline divs, images, or table elements.  One of the [...]

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Take advantage of the Manage Content Tools

By shane.perran in : SharePoint 2007 // Jan 12 2007

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I just realized how little I’ve been utilizing the “Manage Site Content and Structure” tool available out of the box with MOSS 2007. While working on my most recent project I had templated a list w/ content types which I needed to roll out to a significant number of sub sites. Using the Manage Site [...]

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