SharePoint 2010 has made great strides in terms of design and accessibility, which makes your job as a “SharePoint Designer” much easier.

On past projects I have made web parts collapsible by wrapping web part zones with code in the page layout. The disadvantage with this approach is that it is not adjustable by the client without modifying the page layout. A project I just wrapped up required the flexibility for site owners to add or remove web parts that automatically became collapsible. This project was for SharePoint 2010, but I converted the solution to work with SharePoint 2007

This is a quick sketch of how to setup diversified dashboards for different levels of users by creating a Dashboards document library, holding multiple web part pages.

Frequently evaluating your company’s collaboration maturity is a great way to determine where knowledge gaps exist, what facets require additional education and how to assist people to expand their use of SharePoint. 

Closed and deleted mean different things in SharePoint. This causes a lot of confusion among users and administrators and can lead to lengthy troubleshooting sessions. I will present some simple methods to help you combat this issue.

SharePoint is really a collection of capabilities. At its heart, it is a Portal that exposes information customized for a particular user. It has extended functionality to quickly build features inside this portal to enable Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Search. It has ventured into Social Computing and Collaboration by creating shared work spaces, supporting blogs and wikis and allowing people search. With the inclusion of PerformancePoint in its licensing, it also becomes a strong Business Intelligence offering, though it will require expanded knowledge of that capability to implement. It starts to break down when pushed to work as a Business Process Management Suite or Application framework.

I spent the week with John Anderson from Bamboo Nation and he never told me there were pop stars and schlock web part salesmen on the ohter side of the fence. Would you work with a company that has the confidence in their products to put out these promo videos?

This is the feedback area for the Enhance the SharePoint Interface – 8 No Code Solutions, live online workshop. In the workshop, we go over 8 solutions that can be placed on your SharePoint site without recourse to accessing the server.

You can enhance the interface to SharePoint without access to the server! The Content Editor Web Part is an extremely powerful tool for WSS and MOSS site managers. Using simple javascripts, css and jQuery code, improvements to the interface can be added without having to resort to programming.

Bamboo Solutions is making their entire catalog of SharePoint products available to user groups at no cost. What? Are you kidding me? Nope, check out how it works. If I was running a user group, I’d be all over this one.