Beta version of “New” EndUserSharePoint.com
It’s been a week since the site was taken down because of traffic overload. As I’m moving content to the new server, I’d like to have some feedback as to how things are looking. Please poke around, find some stuff, give me input on how it’s working for you.
Many, if not all of the legacy images will be broken, so no need to report that. There were so many requests for content, I just wanted to expose the articles as quickly as possible. Over the next week, Natasha and I will be updating the image paths.
I am also redoing the categorization system. Within the next few days, there will be a way for you to search against all 2010 vs 2007 solutions. The grouping will change and the categorization system will be completely exposed for the best filtering possible.
Slowly, but surely, everything is coming back together. Thanks for your continuing support. Looking forward to your feedback.
Mark
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Mark,
I’d say layout-wise it’s looking pretty much nailed. The Topics menu needs shortening up (but this may already be part of your recategarisation task). Nothing else noted jsut now but will have a good poke around and see if anything comes up.
Dave.
Layout looks good, have looked around and some of the articles, the formatting is good easy to understand. Might want to use a different font or bold options in the section headings of the article’s themselves, they tend to blend in. I was looking at an articled in the best practices section that seem to blend in.
The site looks good. Glad its back up. Might want to make the link with the number of comments smaller, seems to be just as big as the post titles. Also offer pagination at the bottom of the homepage. Tags in all CAPS at the bottom of each post are somewhat hard to read.
What about tag clouds? That will definitely help find articles more easily and easy to figure the hot topics as well.
Overall the site looks good….just that search button is hard to find due to color combination sometimes……
Great job so far EUSP !
Mark,
Looks great! Glad to see the site is back up and running. I have noticed that some of your author headshots are missing (mine included). Let me know if you need it again.
Chris Quick
Chris – Still working through the articles to set relative reference on the images. Yours should show up any month now :-) — Mark
Looks awesome Mark! Glad to see all your hard work is paying off!
Toby
Great job, Mark! Thanks for all of your hard work!
Blessings,
Jim Bob
So good to see you old friend! :) The site looks great at first pass…I’ll definitely be poking around and keep you posted anything striking.
Thanks for your hard work!
Twitter feed in the sidebar / footer.
Dave – Twitter feed of what? — Mark
Yay, I can get my endusersharepoint fix now.
Looking good Mark :) I like the new template.
- Dessie
Can’t find a link to the STP forum!
Nice to see a RSS feed for the comments (did you have this on the old site?)
Christophe – I’m rebuilding that with a better piece of software. — Mark
Looking good and glad to have you back. I am not sure if you are adding this back, but I really liked it when you went to an article and on the bottom it had links to the other articles in the series. Under the topics the filed under section seems a little large when there are a lot of tags.
So glad to have this site back!!
Thanks, John. Yes, I am still implementing all of the functionality of the previous site and the series links are a top priority. — Mark
Great job, Mark. I’m very happy with the new site and know it will become even better. One thing that may need to be improved: the thumbs up/down for comments. I read several comments and was able to mark two of them. For for some reason, I can’t get any other feedback to show up. I click a comment icon, and nothing happens anymore.
Keep up the great work! Your site is an invaluable tool to me.
Dan
Dan – You’re right. I’m going to pull them and look for a better solution. Thanks. — Mark
Don’t mean to be a pedant but the url looks quite ugly… i’m sure you’re working on it though and great job bringing the site backup :)
Anon – Yes, it did look ugly, didn’t it? That was just the testing URL. We’re back to the basic now. — Mark
Where is the link to log into the Subscriber Archive content area?
New site looks great!
Ben – Working on that one. Page should be available within the next day or two. — Mark
Awesome! I do not know where I would be without this site. Thanx for everything.
Mark, glad the site is back again, the lay out looks very good, much more neat then previous one!
However the “Recent posts” and “Recent comments” are a bit far down don’t you think?
Especially on the home page. Just my 0,5 €
NotaBene – I thought about that a lot. I had it in the right hand panel, but now that I’m exposing the 20 most recent posts in the content area, it seemed redundant. I’m looking for other types of the things to add to the right side of the page that will help with navigation. I think the archive list works pretty well. I might add the main categories there, too. — Mark
Great job Mark. Glad to see the site back up and running!
Can’t imagine the work and long hours you’ve had to put in. Can’t find a link to “Stump the Panel”. That’s the ONE thing I see truly missing.
Lynda – I left it out on purpose. Next big task is to completely rebuild that forum. It’s outgrown the house and needs a major upgrade. — Mark
Mark, looking good… finding stuff… being much more productive than in the week EUSP was down.
One thing that’s probably already on your list, but thought I’d mention: The print button under Share, prints all of the content on the page (list of authors, etc.). Be nice to have a printer-friendly EUSP wrapper that lets me print just the article and some identifying information to get back to it.
Blessings,
Jim Bob
Jim Bob – Sounds like a WordPress plugin you should be working on :-) Mark
Great to have you back !!
George – You and me both. Big article coming on how it all happened and what I’m doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again. — Mark
/happydance
You’ve clearly been burning the midnight oil–welcome back, sir!
Every cloud has a silver lining. The site looks a.w.e.s.o.m.e.
:)
Thanks Joe. Still working on it, but things are getting better. — Mark
I’m so happy to see that the site is back. I was having a business lunch today with someone who asked me if I had ever seen the great SharePoint content at endusersharepoint.com (and I most certainly have :). When I mentioned that the site had been taken down recently, my lunch friend looked very concerned and then subsequently relieved when I told him that the site had been resurrected with a lot of hard work. Thanks again for the wonderful job that you do to deliver high quality content to the SharePoint community.
Thanks Bonnie. Buy your friend a cup of tea, on me. — Mark
Now I realize that your big list of 1200+ articles is also missing. This was very convenient to travel back in time and see all articles on one page.
Christophe – Check the right hand panel under “Monthly Archives”. It’s all there. — Mark
I can’t find Stump the panel… Is it gone?
Mari-Pier,
Nope, not gone, just sleeping. I’m getting the main site in shape then I’ll launch a new version of Stump the Panel. Glad you find it useful.
Mark
Mark, I was talking about the one with the expand all option, which allowed me to see all titles in a page and do a quick search.
Hi Mark,
Looks very good.. Looking forward to seeing all the new features.
I have noticed however, that some of the links are gone to the code. An example I came across recently is:
http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2009/02/20/jquery-for-everyone-collapse-text-in-list-view/
The comment reads “Click “Read more” for the code…”. However, cannot find it..
Keep up the great work..
LiSpeedyG – Try it now. Should be fine. — Mark
Love the site but I do miss the format where each author had all of their their submissions listed under each of their articles. Currently, if I would like to see all of Paul Grenier’s submissions I have to select “Author” wade through all of results that contain the Paul Grenier tag, including past workshop details and finally find a result that has “Posted by AutoSponge” and select it to bring up the items I wish to view.
Robin – The “series” plugin is broken in the new site. Natasha and I are working on it and hope to have it up and running again within the next few days. — Mark