Tony Stephens / Simian Design

These are my delicious links for October 10th:

• 10 Most Incredible Waterfalls of Ice - There really isn't much else like a frozen waterfall. Just odd and wonderful at the same time.

These are my delicious links for October 9th:

• Flickr: The BrickCon Pool - Massive photo pool on Flickr with over 4,000 photos from last weekend's BrickCon, over 3,200 attended in Seattle, WA to see some of the biggest and best LEGO creations on earth.

These are my delicious links for October 7th:

• Best Ad: Evolution of Logos - The history of well known logo designs.
• The eyeballing game -

These are my delicious links for October 6th:

• When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods - Modern day user experience research methods can now answer a wide range of questions. Knowing when to use each method can be understood by mapping them in 3 key dimensions and across typical product development phases.

I don’t like the default SharePoint breadcrumbs. They annoy me in multiple ways.  And I’m not alone in my disdain.

MOSS 2007 has two breadcrumbs that are included on the master page.  Not one, but two.  The Global Breadcrumb appears in the upper left of a default SharePoint site, and it shows the site levels as a person delves into a site.   A very high-level breadcrumb.  

The Page Level breadcrumb is also included on the master page, wrapped in a content placeholder.   This allows the master page to provide default information, but allowing the pages to replace that default content with it’s own.  If on the page level you empty out that content placeholder, you can zero out the Page Level breadcrumbs.  Annoying.

Heather Solomon has a great writeup on breadcrumbs (shocker), which is well worth a read.  I particularly like the demo image she provides showing the difference between the two main providers you can choose from.

The next challenge with the breadcrumb is the site map provider it uses.  There are several available in SharePoint, and two that are used predominantly for WSS and MOSS sites in the breadcrumb.   The problem is the WSS one is great for lists and libraries, and the MOSS one is great for publishing pages.  But they each are not great for the other. 

Breadcrumb with site map provider best for WSS: 
<asp:SiteMapPath SiteMapProvider=”SPContentMapProvider“ id=”ContentMap” SkipLinkText=”" NodeStyle-CssClass=”ms-sitemapdirectional” runat=”server”/>

Breadcrumb with site map provider best for MOSS (publishing sites):
<asp:SiteMapPath ID=”siteMapPath” Runat=”server” SiteMapProvider=”CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode“ RenderCurrentNodeAsLink=”false” CurrentNodeStyle-CssClass=”breadcrumbCurrent” NodeStyle-CssClass=”ms-sitemapdirectional”/>

The main issue with the WSS site map provider is it will show directories you don’t want it to (mainly the Pages library) in the breadcrumb, and on some pages it will show “.aspx” on the end of the page name. The MOSS site map provider is more graceful, it just doesn’t show the list or library name in the breadcrumb.

There is also a great collection of reference links at the bottom of the post as well.

These are my delicious links for October 6th:

• Galleriffic | A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries -
• 12 Examples of Paragraph Typography - Only standard <p> tags have been used. Some of these styles are experiments using pseudo elements and adjacent sibling selectors; browser support is not consistent. Paragraph font size is set at 1em (equivalent to 16px if browser font size is unchanged) and line height set at 1.25em. Georgia was used exclusively. No browser specific CSS has been used—any inconsistency in the rendering of line-height, baseline and element positioning has been left for cross browser comparison before implementing.
• Turner didn't paint AT-ATs but if he did… - Gorgeous.

These are my delicious links for October 4th:

• How To Write An Effective Design Brief and Get The Design You Want! -

Ray carves pumpkins.  Really amazing pumpkins.  He shows you how to carve your own amazing face on a pumpkin.  Something worth-while to try.

These are my delicious links for October 3rd:

• How To Whistle Loudly -

Just a quick break to show you this brilliance. He also does Aliens,  Cthulhu, Predator and more.