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Company Portal Best Practices

Efficiency, memorability, and error reduction are the three most important usability attributes considered in the design of an intranet or portal.  Read the rest of this article to learn more about these three principles.

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10 Things A Portal Must Have

Obviously, most companies are moving towards having intranet portals.  However, companies often fail to do it right.  Although developing a global portal for your company doesn’t seem difficult, the challenges are overwhelming.  Read about 10 things that all portals must have.

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Deep Linking and Usability Criteria

If you haven’t heard the term before, deep linking describes designing a site being constructed in a way to allow users to bookmark a location within the site to return to.  What is the alternative?  making the user start from the home page with every visit.  This article explores deep linking in relation to usability.

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Flash Video Player for SharePoint

Due to popular demand, I have decided to post concerning creating a Flash video player for implementation into SharePoint.  Although i will not discuss creating custom Web parts to handle the operation, i will go into the code used in SharePoint to stream the Flash video, and also enable the ActiveX control for smooth playback.

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