Graphical sharepoint planning

Wow - just when I was waiting for some solutions to the numerous planning and documentation problems that are inherent in Sharepoint two come along at once, if you want to go the Visio 2007 route and have a look at this:

http://www.visio-for-sharepoint.com/VFS-Pages/VFS-Purchase.asp

You might like to hear someone saying that Visio is the way to go http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1524

And here is free wireframe to do site designs on
http://cid-1b6acb7b24d13da6.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Site%20Wireframe%20Template.vsd

There look to be a tonne more here
http://www.visguy.com/2006/12/05/sharepoint-planning-visio-diagrams/

but I can't vouch for this lot as I am sat at a mac so no go the Visio.

But wait those nice people at endusersharepoint use Mind Manager (which despite its frankly Orwellian name seems to be a very useful tool) - don't believe me ? have a look at this http://ow.ly/1aS1

Creating simple forms

Assuming that your form needs are simple, why not use a list..create the columns or content types that support that holiday request , site request or what have you, in a list with the required fields.

Then link to the list but append

NewForm.aspx?

to the url of the link. This way when the user clicks the link they are taken immediately to a new form rather than having to navigate the list.

after

NewForm.aspx?source=

and then the address of the page that the link belongs on or to a page with a thank you message. This way when the user clicks OK, after finishing with their form they are taken to this page,rather than the all items view of the list they have just added to, this allows for a more friendly user experience. This source trick is what I call a boomerang link

Planning

Card Sorting - method of building and analyzing information architecture - from boxes and arrows

Nice looking tool for analysing card sorting data websort

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Information Architecture book for free from google books http://books.google.com/books?id=OM3DvakML-MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=information+architecture&sig=LelzZLT1Aolhlji9f9II4jOv0qE

item level permission fix for document libraries https://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/morse_matt/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=8