October 2009 Archives

Here are some valuable comments, thoughts, and links published on Twitter this week.

• Sharepoint 2010 Poster: http://bit.ly/3HND08 #sharepoint, #sp2010
• RT @muhimbi: Ultimate list of SharePoint 2010 resources and blog postings - http://bit.ly/3MlNpl <-- Impressive<-- this is really amazing
• RT @pswider: SharePoint 2010 Software Developer Kit http://bit.ly/3QBAX3
• RT @muhimbi: Some interesting bullet points on #SharePoint 2010 Search changes - http://ow.ly/vCDe
• Here is a list of Companies using Sharepoint mentioned during Steve Ballmer's Keynote Address: http://tiny.cc/LZLVT #sharepoint, #spc09
• RT @sahinovic: Steve Ballmer SharePoint Conference 09 transcript: http://bit.ly/ZlF1y (expand) #sharepoint

Here are the most popular Sharepoint designs for the past week based on page impressions in the fastest growing web design showcase on the net.  No real changes or additions but Novermber starts a new session.

1. 1eEurope
2. Joliet Junior College
3. 3-A-Day
4. 3fifteen
5. 6th Street Consulting
6. A.P. Moller - Maersk Group
7. AA Torque
8. AARP Foundation WorkSearch
9. Abbeyfield
10. Abel Solutions

Here are some of the top Sharepoint Designs coming from New Zealand.  Design, Usability, and Appearance is crucial for a high value web site. With that in mind, several New Zealand based organizations are integrating Microsoft's Sharepoint into their online strategy.  These sites can be an excellent source of design inspiration and business utility.

1. 2010 FIFA World Cup

2. AA Torque

3. Chapman Tripp

4. Hui Taumata Trust

5. Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa)

6. Rabobank Australia

7. Rabobank New Zealand

8. Environmental Science & Research

9. FlyBuys

10. Kiwi Experience

More Designs coming from New Zealand.

Here are the most popular Sharepoint designs for the past week based on page impressions in the fastest growing web design showcase on the net.  Joliet Junior College remains at the top for the fourth week in a row.  New to the list includes Volvo, Kraft Foods, and Distinctions Cabinetry.

1. Joliet Junior College
2. Pella Corporation
3. 2010 FIFA World Cup
4. AgileThought
5. Kraft Foods
6. Volvo Cars
7. Cable ONE
8. Alaska Pacific University
9. Distinctions Cabinetry
10. Energizer Battery Company

Here are some valuable comments, thoughts, and links published on Twitter this week.

• RT @gannotti Seeing use of meta data with digital assets in SharePoint 2010 and thumbnail and hover views #spc09
• Cool Sharepoint Poster: http://bit.ly/v3YoE
• RT @sahinovic: Steve Ballmer SharePoint Conference 09 transcript: http://bit.ly/ZlF1y (expand) #sharepoint
• Here is a list of Companies using Sharepoint mentioned during Steve Ballmer's Keynote Address: http://tiny.cc/LZLVT #sharepoint, #spc09
• rt @alexangas: Heaps of articles for developing #SP2010 in #VS2010 now on MSDN! http://bit.ly/3JQvqt (expand) #SharePoint
• RT @CraigToThePoint: Four #SharePoint 2010 upgrade posters available now. http://bit.ly/1A14kk (expand)

We added 70 Sites to the Sharepoint Design Gallery Inventory.  This takes us up to 715 sites and into the number two slot for Sharepoint Design sites.

• Advantage Sales and Marketing
• AMD Developer Central
• Arab MTV
• Archer Daniels Midland Company
• Argo Turboserve Corporation
• Australian DIISR
• Australian SKA project (AuSKA)
• Bangkok Bank
• Bank of New York Mellon
• BankMed
• Baylor Health Care System
• Becon Construction Company
• Betco
• Boulder Valley School District
• Boys Town
• Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International
• Cable & Telecommunications Association for marketing
• Camako
• Camouflage
• CMS Legal Services
• College of Business, Southern Illinois University
• Columba Basin Health Association
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
• cScape
• Daemen College
• Damco
• Devon and Cornwall Police
• East Staffordshire Borough Council
• Emergency Nurses Association
• Fertin Pharma
• Frost Bank
• Georgia Standards
• Gevalia
• Guildford Grammar School
• ICT Governance Initiative
• Illinois State Medical Society
• Investors in People UK
• JobSearch Australia
• Kuwait Oil Company
• M&T Bank Corporation
• Mental Health Commission of Canada
• National Institute for Health Research
• National Travel Forum
• Oakwood Systems
• Occidental Petroleum Corporation
• Ontario Hospital Association
• Pacific West Financial Group
• Parsons Corporation
• Pearson Language Tests
• Perth College
• Pervasive Software
• Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Santiago Canyon College
• Silent Tools
• Spenta Consulting
• Stanford Anesthesia Department
• Synopsys
• Tacoma Public Schools
• The Army National Guard (ARNG)
• The Bank of Thailand
• The Learning Trust
• The Little Gym
• The Stockholm School of Economics
• Tshwane University of Technology
• Turku School of Economics
• Twynham school
• Universities UK
• Utrecht University
• Worcester College of Technology
• Yakima Valley Community College

Here are the top 10 Sharepoint sites mentioned during the Sharepoint 2009 Conference held in Las Vegas this week. 

1. Bristol-Myers Squibb

2. Cadence Design Systems

3. Chesapeake Energy Corporation CNG Now

4. Conservation International

5. Energizer Battery Company

6. Ferrari

7. Hawaiian Air

8. Intermountain Healthcare

9. Kraft Foods

10. Kroger

Here is a list of Sharepoint Sites mentioned before, during and after Steve's Ballmer's Keynote address to the 2009 Sharepoint Conference.  They went by very fast but I think I got most of them.

• Accenture
• ADM
• AirTran
• AllTel Wireless
• AMD
• Ankdarko
• Bank of America
• Bejieng 2008
• Blockbuster
• Boys & Girls Club
• Brinks Home Security
• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Cadence
• CDW
• Chesapeake Energy
• CitiGroup
• Citreoen
• Coca-cola Enterprises
• Cognizant
• Conservation International
• Continental Air
• Defra - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affiars
• Del Monte
• Easy Jet
• Electronic Arts
• Energizer
• Equiniti
• Ferrai
• General Mills
• Hawaiian Air
• Honeywell
• Intermountain Healthcare
• Jamha Juice
• Johnson & Johnson
• Jones Lang Lasalla
• Kraft
• Kroger
• Maimi-Dade County Schools
• McCann World Group
• McKesson
• Monsanto
• MTV
• NFL
• Nickelodeon
• Numonyx
• Nustrar
• Office Max
• Orrick
• Pfizer
• Pilgrim
• Raymond James
• Raytheon
• Remax
• Renault
• Rubbermaid
• Schoolnet.com
• ScottTrade
• Shell
• Siemens
• Skanska
• Starbucks
• Swiss Army
• Swisscom
• Time Warner Cable
• TV Guide
• TVLand
• Tyson
• Under Armour
• Viacom
• Vodafone
• Volvo
• Wolters Kluwer

Here are some valuable comments, thoughts, and links published on Twitter this week.

• RT @mjasay: Intriguing data behind SharePoint adoption. Almost entirely for basic doc mgmt & everywhere: http://bit.ly/1hRUIM
• SharePoint: Adding a Toolbar to Custom List Views: http://graegert.com/?p=899
• Setting Sharepoint Form Fields with Javascript: http://tiny.cc/Voiz3
• Sharepoint (Collaboration Tool) and Spigit (Information Market) are getting integrated: http://tiny.cc/iL2kB
• RT @pl_sharepoint: Mike Gannotti: Video: #SharePoint Wikis In The Enterprise http://planetsharepoint.org...

Here are the most popular Sharepoint designs for the past week based on page impressions in the fastest growing web design showcase on the net.  Joliet Junior College remains at the top for the third week in a row.

1. Joliet Junior College
2. Cable ONE
3. Pella Corporation
4. AgileThought
5. 2010 FIFA World Cup
6. Black Blade
7. Energizer Battery Company
8. Ann Arbor
9. Alaska Pacific University
10. Abesse

We added 48 sites to the Sharepoint Design Gallery Inventory.  This takes us up to 648 sites and into the number two slot for Sharepoint Design sites.

• Ajilon Professional Staffing
• Alltech
• AlphaMosaik
• American Association for Clinical Chemistry
• American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
• Applied Technology Systems
• ARC Advisory Group
• Avendra
• Cadence Design Systems
• Department of Social and Family Affairs Ireland
• Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
• European Environment Agency
• Evergreen Public Schools
• Famine Early Warning Systems Network
• FINMA
• Finnish Forest Industries Federation
• Fluor
• Global Health Education Consortium
• Glue Mobile Games
• Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana
• ICL
• Impact Management
• ITER
• JATO
• Joint Royal Colleges of Physicia Training Board (JRCPTB)
• Leeds Trinity
• Maryland Department of Information Technology
• Mt. Diablo Unified School District
• MTN Group Limited
• Municipality of Ankara
• National Professional Paintball League
• Neudesic
• NRB Network
• People to People Ambassador Program
• Performance Food Group (PFG)
• Quality Food Centers (QFC)
• StatoilHydro
• Summit Business Media Events
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• TASER International
• Tekla
• The American Dental Education Association (ADEA)
• The American Marketing Association (AMA)
• The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
• Washington State Department of Natural Resources
• West Pharmaceutical Services
• WestLB AG
• WorkCover NSW

For once, I am not going to mention features and usability which is our real competitive advantage.  We do a few other things that make our inventory a better place to get your insight and examples.  First, we validate the organization is actually using Sharepoint in their online environment.  It doesn't really count if you're using Sharepoint as a collaborative tool internally and using HTML or .Net externally.  That's not what you want to see in a Sharepoint Site Showcase.  Second, we actually validate the sites to ensure they are still using Sharepoint and are online.  Some of our competitors list dead or broken links which isn't the best idea.  Finally, we only list sites that provide an English version.  This is about being arrogant but having the ability to read the information provides better metadata like location, description, and classification.  We don't want to guess at these items which allow us to provide better information to you.

Placeholder's are server oriented code that places content on the web page itself.  Things like page title, cookie trails, or navigation pains are all positioned using the Masterpage and Sharepoint Designer.  One of the questions we get routinely is how can I turn off or hide a particular Placeholder.  Take a look at the following code which is used to present the Site Name.

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSiteName" runat="server">

If you wanted to hide this you could simply turn the visibility setting to false as seen below.

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSiteName" runat="server" Visible="False"/>

Personally, I move all of the hidden place holders to the bottom of the page where it is easy to keep track of the ones that are hidden.

Design, Usability, and Appearance is crucial for obvious reasons in the Healthcare industry these days. With that in mind, several financial organizations are integrating Microsoft's Sharepoint into their online strategy.  These sites can be an excellent source of design inspiration.

Attractive design and photography can make the products more appealing to visitors and increase sales.  There are a lot of different design styles and approaches that are used by healthcare firms and hospitals, but generally photography and product images play a large role.  Sometimes the design and layout is minimal, allowing for more emphasis on the products.

In this post we'll feature 10 inspirational healthcare website designs that represent a variety of styles that are sure to inspire you.

1. Association of Public Health Laboratories

2. Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

3. City of Hope

4. Intermountain Healthcare

5. Life Line Screening

6. Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

7. RhoGAM

8. Ruijin Hospital (China)

9. Sacred Heart Hospital

10. The Cleveland Clinic

See More Healthcare Sites based on Sharepoint

Here are some valuable comments, thoughts, and links published on Twitter this week.

• RT @delicious50: Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007 http://bit.ly/RO7WV (expand) sharepoint
• RT @furuknap: Just blogged: Web Edit in SharePoint 2010 - Or Is It? http://bit.ly/Nzmnw (expand) #SP2010
• RT @pl_sharepoint: Mike Gannotti: Video: #SharePoint Wikis In The Enterprise http://planetsharepoint.org...
• Added an Image based interactive design function to the gallary last night: http://www.sharepointdesign...
• Use OneNote & SharePoint for small project documentation and collaboration: http://tiny.cc/b5xPm
• Make Sharepoint 2007 act like Sharepoint 2010: http://tiny.cc/QTL0Y
• 2009-10-01 Today in SharePoint with Michael Gannotti (Recording): http://tiny.cc/tTKqK

1. Joliet Junior College
2. Cable ONE
3. AgileThought
4. Pella Corporation
5. 2010 FIFA World Cup
6. Black Blade
7. Energizer Battery Company
8. Abesse
9. Microsoft Flight Simulator Insiders
10. AGL Energy

There seems to be three basic inventories of Sharepoint sites out on the web today. Each of these sites take a different approach in presenting the information to you. We have put together a side by side comparison of each of these sites based on the inventory as well as the business functionality provided.  Obviously, our review will be slightly slanted towards the Sharepoint Design Gallery.  Take a look at the comparison between WSS-Demo, Top Sharepoint, and the Sharepoint Design Gallery.

View Comparison

Our Strengths Include:

• Quantity of Sites
• Metadata Captured for each site
• Multiple Ways in which to Review the data
• Expert and End User Reviews
• Interactive Site Search

1. Komatsu

2. Kone Corporation

3. MDU Resources Group

4. Milliken Carpet

5. Moat

6. Oldcastle Precast

7. OPUS Corporation

8. OTIS

9. PBSJ Corporation

10. WesTrac

We added 77 new sites to the Sharepoint Design Gallery Inventory.  This takes us up to 600 sites and into the number two slot for Sharepoint Design sites.

1. Ann Arbor
2. Ascentium
3. Barilla
4. Case IH
5. CCH Wolters Kluwer
6. CGA-Canada
7. Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) NHS Foundation Trust
8. Clark County
9. Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.
10. CLP Holdings
11. CMR Institute
12. CMS Cameron McKenna
13. Community Reinvestment Fund
14. Cypher Stent
15. DBS Asset Management
16. Distinctions Cabinetry
17. Eveleth-Gilbert Public School District
18. Firstplus Financial
19. Food4Less
20. Foster Care Month
21. Future Electronics
22. General Mills
23. If insurance
24. Ingersoll Rand
25. Interdyn-Artis
26. LG Arena Birmingham
27. Life Line Screening
28. Linkage
29. Lithuanian Labour Exchange
30. Logta
31. Main Roads Western Australia
32. Malaysian Chinese Association
33. Markel Corporation (MKL-NYSE)
34. Marktvergleich
35. Milliken Carpet
36. Municipality of Anchorage
37. National Apartment Association
38. New Zealand Automobile Association
39. Northridge Systems
40. OGE Energy Corp
41. Ohio IT Alliance
42. Oldcastle Precast
43. ONTRACK
44. OpsManJam
45. OPUS Corporation
46. Oregon Technology Access Program
47. Organice
48. OTIS
49. Pantone
50. Parity
51. PBSJ Corporation
52. Poyner Spruill
53. Queens College
54. Ramp Group
55. RYA Scotland
56. Safety-Kleen Systems
57. Seep Network
58. Sieena
59. Smarter Grid Maryland
60. Southwestern Energy
61. The American University in Cairo
62. The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
63. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
64. The Department of Health Care Services
65. The Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
66. The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
67. The Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project
68. The Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI),
69. UK NHS
70. Unified Grocers
71. Unipol Gruppo Finanziario
72. UNOPS
73. USfalcon
74. Viacom TVLand
75. Victorinox
76. Wallace Foundation
77. Woods Bagot

Are you looking for design ideas for your Sharepoint implementation?  Do you want to see how others have implemented this technology in their environment?  We have over 600 sites in the collection and the most comprehensive methods of finding the exact site you want to see.  Take a look!

1. Latest Updates
2. Interactive Guide
3. Tags and Tag Clouds
4. Ranking and Rating
5. Location
6. Google Maps
7. Color Scheme
8. Alphabetical
9. Image Preview
10. Search

In addition to these 10, we have most popular, editor picks, your favorites, industry, product or service, and several more.  Come take a look around...

Here are the most popular Sharepoint designs for the past week based on page impressions in the fastest growing web design showcase on the net.  Go Joliet....

1. Joliet Junior College
2. Cable ONE
3. Black Blade
4. Abesse
5. AgileThought
6. MF Global
7. Pella Corporation
8. Julius Baer Group
9. Energizer Battery Company
10. Microsoft Flight Simulator Insiders

Here are some valuable comments, thoughts, and links published on Twitter this week.

• 10 Financial Firms (plus a few) Utilizing #Sharepoint as thier Business Frontend: http://tiny.cc/vDdAf
• #SharePoint Web Page Thumbnails in Your SharePoint Lists: http://bit.ly/dWjQ5 Full http://bit.ly/JX3VF
• RT @pl_sharepoint: End User SharePoint: Develop #SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 08 (Video) http://planetsharepoint.org...
• RT @artduane: SharePoint Roles and Responsibilities http://ff.im/-8WCgB
• RT @gannotti: just posted new video "Extending SharePoint http://bit.ly/88JrP Full http://bit.ly/am4Po
• RT @ekarafilis: Sharepoint advanced search customization post: http://bit.ly/HVigl (expand)

• Acquirgy
• AGL Energy
• Alfa Laval
• AMD
• Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
• Analysts International Corporation
• Arkansas General Assembly
• Arts and Humanities Research Council
• Ascentia Cabinetry
• Association of Public Health Laboratories
• Basic Issue
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Black Blade
• Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
• Canadian Problem Gambling
• Capita Group Plc
• Clovis: Gateway to the Sierras
• CLS Bank
• CorpTax
• CRU
• DakStats
• DBS Group
• Department of Education and Training
• Desjardins General Insurance
• Direct Energy
• Dremel
• ECI Telecom
• ECRI Institute
• Falcon School District 49
• FEI World Cup
• Fifteen
• Financial Regulator Ireland
• Florida Virtual School
• FredMeyer Stores
• Gainesville State College
• Goodman
• GrainCorp
• Grand Canyon University student portal
• Granite School District
• Great Plains Oilfield Rental
• Group Scotiabank
• Hymans Robertson
• Intermountain Healthcare
• International Conference on Capsule Endoscopy
• Jefferson County School System
• Jones Lang LaSalle
• JTC Coporation
• Julius Baer Group
• Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
• Kane County
• Kansas City Missouri School District
• Kansas City Southern
• Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies
• Katy Independent School District
• Kentucky official Web portal
• Komatsu
• Layer2
• Lloyds TSB Shareview
• LodgeNet Interactive Corporation
• Loomis
• Metro Vancouver
• Metrowater
• Microsoft Flight Simulator Insiders
• Mitrais
• Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc
• Monterey Peninsula College
• Motability Operations
• Noblis
• North American Spine Society
• Northern NSW Football
• Northridge Interactive
• Northumberland County Council
• Nyenrode Business University
• NZ Ministry of Transport
• OBS
• Olympic Congress
• Pella Corporation
• Penn University Nursing Science
• Pilgrim Men's Supplies
• Pinal County
• Plano Texas
• Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust
• Project Management Institute
• Purdue Agriculture
• Redland City Council
• Resolute Solutions Corp
• Robert Morris University
• Rotary International
• Ruijin Hospital (China)
• Sacred Heart Hospital
• Sampo Bank
• SharePoint Design Center
• SharePoint911
• Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
• Social Inclusion Australia
• SOS-Kinderdorf International
• St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii
• St. Vincent Medical Education
• Technology Infused Education
• The Entrepreneurs' Organization
• The Halton Regional Police Service
• The Information Management Group, Inc.
• The NEC Group
• The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• The Wildlife Damage Management Program
• Thomson
• Twist
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center
• Western Australia's Golden Outback
• World Vision Canada
• WorleyParsons
• YMCA of Metropolitan Washington
• Zain

Design, Usability, and Appearance is crucial for obvious reasons in the Financial industry these days. With that in mind, several financial organizations are integrating Microsoft's Sharepoint into their online strategy.  These brand or e-commerce sites can be an excellent source of design inspiration.

Attractive design and photography can make the products more appealing to visitors and increase sales.  There are a lot of different design styles and approaches that are used by financial firms and banks, but generally photography and product images play a large role.  Sometimes the design and layout is minimal, allowing for more emphasis on the products.

In this post we'll feature 6 inspirational auto manufacturing website designs that represent a variety of styles that are sure to inspire you.

1. Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange

2. AXA Private Equity

3. Banco Nossa Caixa

4. CRU

5. CSOB Group

6. Danske Capital

7. DBS Vickers Securities

8. Dell Financial Services

9. Julius Baer Group

10. LaSalle Investment Management

More Financial Services Firms