You’d be absolutely amazed at how many people are still using Internet Explorer 6! One of the hardest things I’ve had to explain is this very thing; some people just don’t comprehend anyone can be on anything less as the latest bleeding edge browser since they are!

There are however,…

Making nice graphs with such volume measures as “documents added, documents downloaded, community members etc.”, is all well and done, but the question that must resonate is “What real use are these to show how my business operates?!“.

Instead value drivers pushing forward action such as quality of information and…

You may find that colleagues, especailly senior colleagues are cautious over the implimentation of so-called community building or collaborative software. However, with the correct departmental governance and policing, and best practice of this area, community software can be utilised to its full benefit as a useful and integrated business tool.…

I was passed a fantastic link to Joel Olesons’s blog post on the Microsoft Developer Network at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/03/16/information-architecture-and-the-information-architect.aspx

Though Joel’s post is essentially discussing the deployment of Microsoft Sharepoint in an Enterprise environment its essentially questioning the very core of what is an Intranet environment for any content management! Not…

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Not listed verbs, adjectives nor articles but the below arrays are very handy should one be running language based queries over rendered pages.

Why? I dunno … say you’re trying to make a tag cloud or something but it’s full of filler words!

Articles are “a”, “an” and “the” only…

Here’s a little code snippet to export an HTML table to MS Excel through utilising ActiveXObject(“Excel.Application”) from Internet Explorer.

The JavaScript (in this case utilising Microsoft’s JScript) runs over the table displayed pulling out the relevant data and exporting into the instantiated copy of Excel. This is a working example…

Organisations anticipate a return on the investment involved in implementing Intranets expressed in financial terms or intangible benefits; an expectation their Intranet will either save money, enhance efficiency or both.

Organisations however, are not cohesive bodies with unified needs or interests; instead they are formed by individuals, each with their own…

Have you noticed how the “out the box” solution to export your dataset from MS Access to MS Excel doesn’t give much room to give custom headers to your worksheet?

Through utlising ActiveX you can instantiate a copy of MS Excel in memory to add in your own custom headers…

Is it just me or has google added a margin around their search results? An ID of ‘gsr’ on the body tag appears to apply ‘margin: 3px 8px;’ bumping the results in at each side!

Clocked this on Tuesday night and thought it was a mistake with my setup or…