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This one showed up in my email box this afternoon. I thought it could provoke a nice discussion on the best practices for developing navigation in SharePoint.

Organic growth is great and is something that you should allow within your SharePoint environment. However, providing some guardrails around what site administrators can or should do with regards to navigation will help to ensure that everyone has an enjoyable SharePoint navigation experience.

Dux Raymond Sy has offered us a screencast demonstrating how to emulate the experience of navigating through a network share hierarchy WITHOUT creating sub-folders ina document library. I use this same technique in live workshops when people ask how to structure document storage when migrating from a file sever.

Last night, I set out on a mission; a mission to create an accordion-style left navigation menu for my WSS test site.  Mission complete.  If you can copy/paste, you can see it in action.  Since I used Google’s API to load jQuery, you don’t even need to download the library file.
First, look at your left nav.  [...]

The question of the day comes from Matt in Massachusetts:
I have been rearranging items into different headings on the Quick  Launch. My Lists heading now has 1 list and 2 document libraries under it.  But, when I click on the Lists heading, only the List items appear.  Obviously, a similar problem occurs when I click [...]

If you’ve been reading the news, China is having one of the worst snow storms in fifty years. There are over 60 million people without power and up to 100,000 people stranded at train stations. With the New Years holiday quickly approaching, the forcast is for more of the same. I still walked from the hotel to [...]

I am currently teaching in New Hampshire and next week in Michigan with little time to answer questions that come in daily on the blog. However, Shawn came up with a good one that I thought might be helpful for many:
Do you have any rules of thumb for defining the navigational structure of a SharePoint [...]