Another inspiring blog from Seth Godin. Seth’s Blog: What do you do when your systems break? As someone who is vaguely involved in building systems, I really like the idea that we should be designing BROKEN buttons. It’s not going to be easy though. Systems are designed because A has to happen before B…
Category: Work
management, web development, university life, stuff like that
What is a VRE?
Have been looking into what a Virtual Research Environment is. JISC has a programme which aims to: building and deploying VREs based on currently available tools and frameworks assessing their benefits and shortcomings in supporting the research process improving and extending them to meet the future needs of UK research developing or integrating new tools…
Logging into Sharepoint Designer
This may be obvious to others, but I was having some problems with not being able to control how I logged into SharePoint Designer. I have a couple of accounts – one for normal work, and one with admin privileges. What I found was that SharePoint designer would log in variously with one or the…
Preselect a tab in the 'New SharePoint Site' page
I tried to find the answer to this one for too long. It may be obvious to most intelligent people but this one’s for the rest of us. In our SharePoint site we make an individual site for each project and these are all kept under one Project Management uber-site. This means that we’re often…
SharePoint vs File Server
OK – so it can’t directly replace a file server. Probably obvious, but this post neatly describes why. I’d summarise – if: it’s not big it’s not clever, and it’s not a movie then it’s probably Ok.
Show all subsites in a webpart
I’ve been looking for a while to find a webpart that would show all the subsites of a particular sharepoint site. If you google this, there appear to be lots of people looking for the same thing. Well, I’ve just found an old reference which, a slight update for MOSS 2007 seems to work at…
My Sharepoint site templates are missing content in the wiki
(About time I started this again… beware though, you may notice a sharepoint theme developing.) SharePoint allows you to create a site template by simply saving a site as a template. This is fine, but buggy and I’ve come across some holes recently. The latest problem for me is that the site template I’m trying…
Transport Direct web snippet form
From: Transport Direct – tips and tools This should get you directions to the Canterbury campus of U.o.K. Get directions by public transport and car with Transport Direct. Enter your postcode
How to get thumbnails of webpages automatically
This is a great little utility/tool/hack called SimpleAPI. It takes a snap of a webpage, creates a thumbnail and lets you embed it on your page. They provide all the html code so all you have to do is copy and paste it into your page/blog. Why is this important? Because a blog entry without…
Header design with options
I like The Man in Blue’s header. A ‘Page Options’ tab elegantly opens to reveal some style sheet options. These look like accessibility-driven options but it got me thinking that this type of design could be used for other options: