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Mar
11
Dancing Side-by-Side with Web Parts: Screencast
Whenever I build a site based on web part pages I find myself constantly asking myself what web parts should be at the top of the page and which should fall below. While I always feel that all of the information I am presenting is important, I know that anything ‘below the fold’ generally won’t be seen by 40% of my audience.
With this quick video tip I will show you how to place your SharePoint web parts side-by-side instead of top-to-bottom. This makes it easier in some cases to present more information at the top of the page and avoids hiding content below the fold.
Additionally, I show you how to rename your page’s web part zones so that you can provide a little leadership to your side administrators regarding what information should be placed where on the page.
So this video is a twofer deal! Not a bad deal in this economy for the price!
Author: Lee Reed ThoughtBridge, Atlanta, GA
Lee Reed is an expert in collaboration and user adoption on the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 platform. His consulting with companies large and small throughout the East Coast has resulted in many successful collaboration environments and increased user adoption.
Lee is currently the Director of Business Process and SharePoint Education for Thoughtbridge, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused exclusively on the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 platform.
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Hey Lee, I see you had to ‘lift the hood’ and drop into SharePoint Designer for this one… but I think that its a good lesson in letting people know that SPD is nowhere near as bad or complicated as people like to paint it.
What we have here is a quick, easy fix and you’ve got a whole new information hierarchy – with guidance for site administrators who would like to add new web parts to your page. I like it… a lot. Thanks!
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Confused as to why you would demo how to turn a perfectly good page into one that would require horizontal scrolling. This is very poor usability and highly frowned upon in web design.
Lee you mention SPD. SPD is taboo here and people believe changing the site as you have demonstrated causes all kinds of problems. Are there any actual numbers that prove or dispprove that modifying SharePoint in this manner is ok or not ok?
hello lee, thanks for the trick. My story is, I went directly to the code and tried to replicate a page where the webparts are side by side, but could not find how to actually write that option. When you look at the code in SPD, there is nothing that shows the location of the webparts being side by side. Is this coded in some CSS properties? how do you do that within the code?
thnaks very much in advance