The hardest issue regarding skinning a SharePoint site is the CSS that MOSS generates — it’s cryptic, and more often than not, it shouldn’t be changed. Heather Solomon has a great reference guide that covers just about every CSS class SharePoint has, complete with screenshots.
Browser Shots takes a screen shot of your website for quality assurance purposes in over 40 browsers available on the web — testing it across the board in PC, Mac, and Linux platforms. Excuse me while I fix some issues I found in Galeon 1.3.20.
I was at Mix 08 recently, and got to see the test drive of Internet Explorer 8 while talking to one of Microsoft’s Program Managers. The first question I asked was, “so what did you guys break this time?” and the second question was, “what’s that nifty Emulate IE 7 button?”
(To this day, 15 years or so into the web, I still can’t believe we’re having browser wars.)
While they are still perfecting it and actually striving for a standard compliant browser, some of the notes from the conversations I had were:
Usability Counts is run by User Experience and Product Management expert Patrick Neeman. He's had many, many job titles (Information Architect, Product Manager, Program Manager, V.P. of Marketing), but now Patrick works for speakTECH, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Southern California that specializes in MOSS, Custom Development, and Open Social MySpace engagements as a Principal Consultant, User Experience and Product Strategy. He's been working the web for over 13 years -- don't hold that against him.
Ha Phan is a Business Analyst/User Experience Consultant in San Diego, California. Ha has worked for Hasbro, NPR Music, Fisher Price, KCRW Media Player which received an Honorable Mentions from the Webby for Best Practices. Ha has also designed games and Business Process Applications.
