UX & IA Design Thinking

I have been searching for a simple tab web part for SharePoint but mostly came up empty handed… I was looking for something that a user can easily drag and drop a web part onto a specific tab within the page. There are quite a few free tab web parts out there but most of them were not just quite what I wanted. I checked out the following Tab web part solutions. Easy Tabs : From Path To SharePoint Pro: The tabs automatically take the name of the web part. Con: There is no option to add more than one web part per tab, and the User Interface is not that intuitive. Zone Tabs : From MSDN Pro: You have a lot of options for tab customization Con: It’s a web part that you have to install on the server. From what I remember it’s not that easy to re-arrange the web parts on the page. I finally found this article from Bits Of SharePoint Site : http://www.bitsofsharepoint.com/ExamplePoint/Site/TabPage.aspx His code was exactly what I needed. All...

It’s been a rough road getting this certification but I have officially passed both the MCTS 70-630 and 70-631 Microsoft Certification!

I have been working with Visio 2010 for a while now and I have to say that I am really happy the new features. I do all of my wireframes in Visio. These can be from 10-40+ pages. I used to struggle with duplicating pages in the past but now there is this great feature similar to how PowerPoint works. If you copy an object and past it on another page it places it in the same horizontal and vertical location from where you copied if from. In the past I had to create a temporary box and place it in the upper left corner of the page > copy both objects > paste those objects on another page and then line the temp. box back up in the upper left corner… I feel like I am in one of those Windows 7 Commercials. “I had this vision one day of Copying and Pasting an object and having it paste into the same location on another page. The next thing I know Microsoft released Visio 2010. I’m a PC and Visio 2010 was my Idea…” This not only works going from page to page but from one Visio do...