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SharePoint Magazine articles for July

2008-07-28T11:45:04Z

Which topics would you like covered on SharePoint Magazine?

We now have a nice database of authors on SharePoint Magazine, and we would like to know which topics you would like covered next?

What are your current pain points?
Which topic have little documentation?
What interests you?

Please add your comments to this post and help shape the magazine to YOUR needs!

Populating data sources in code

How to modify the data sources of a DataFormWebPart real-time and make a simple content aggregator.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Security Model

The purpose of this document is to explore the security model of MOSS and to explain how it is equipped to meet corporate security requirements. This document is not intended to recommend how to configure MOSS, nor does it try to answer why an organization should use MOSS.

What Is YOUR Firm’s SharePoint Balance?

Dan Neff is pretty straightforward about it: “SharePoint is the most installed piece of software in the whole world that’s not being used properly.”

Integrating Project Server 2007 and Team Foundation Server 2008 Sharepoint Sites

Just trying to read the title of this article is quite a mouth full, so I will start by explaining where this idea came from and why I am not using the acronyms as most IT people do.

Use SharePoint Designer to Email Daily Task Reminders

Use SharePoint Designer to create a workflow solution that sends a daily email reminder to business users to complete their assigned tasks.

Microsoft SharePoint on the iPhone

I recently discovered what appears to be a “killer application” for mobile productivity: using and managing fully-featured SharePoint sites from an iPhone.

Announcing ISPA

The International SharePoint Professionals Association, also known as ‘ISPA’, is an independent, not-for-profit, community-driven organization dedicated to support SharePoint professionals and groups all around the world.

SharePoint Magazine interview with Joel Oleson

SharePoint Magazine editor, Arno Nel caught up with one of the blogosphere’s most well know bloggers, Joel Oleson.

NewsGator Social Sites

NewsGator Social Sites helps businesses deliver “Facebook for the Enterprise” by adding social computing and social networking capabilities to Microsoft SharePoint. Check out some of NewsGator’s most social features in this Social Sites product review. And see what customers, press, and analysts have to say about Social Sites.

For more on SharePoint, goto SharePoint Magazine

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2008-07-08T05:56:57Z

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SharePoint Magazine – Coming Soon

2008-07-08T05:33:38Z

Finding Color Inspiration from Paint

2008-01-03T13:10:32Z

Table of contents for The Color Series

An introduction to Color
What is Color?
Color Theory - The Basics
Color Theory - Ultimate Resource List
Chosing color and color schemes - Ultimate Resource List
Generate a Color Palette from an Image
Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology
Finding Color Inspiration from Paint

Benjamin Moore

Personal Color Viewer
“Experience color combinations that you choose in different types of rooms. The Benjamin Moore Personal Color Viewer will show you how paint color combinations will look in a room or on a house before you pick up a paintbrush.”

Virtual Fan Deck
“The Virtual Fan Deck is a fun, easy, and exciting way to view paint colors before buying. This feature allows you to browse numerous Benjamin Moore Color Collections and view Benjamin Moore Colors. This tool gives you the opportunity to see which paint color is best for you.”

Color Origins
“Explore this interactive, visual presentation of a color’s multifaceted story along with the feelings certain colors provoke in all of us.“

Trends
“Find out what’s next in color. Our color experts travel around the globe to bring tomorrow’s color trends to you today.“

Other great links:

Inspiration
- Color Associations
- Color Cues from Nature
- Selecting a Color Scheme
- Color Scheme Ideas
- Color Hints and Tips
- Color Help
Understanding Color

Behr

Color Smart

Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology

2007-12-12T11:24:52Z

Table of contents for The Color Series

An introduction to Color
What is Color?
Color Theory - The Basics
Color Theory - Ultimate Resource List
Chosing color and color schemes - Ultimate Resource List
Generate a Color Palette from an Image
Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology
Finding Color Inspiration from Paint

“The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!” - Coco Chanel French fashion designer 1883-1971

There is no denying color affects us. Its a really powerful tool. With it you can increase sales, send a certain message, trigger a memory, it calm you, make you think of a product or anger you. Not only do colors affect each person differently, but they can mean different things in different cultures. In Japan a white carnation symbolizes death, but in western cultures white is used in weddings or to symbolize all that is good. It is generally agreed that blue is the universal favorite color, having the most positive effects and least negative effects or associations within cultures.

Featured:

Other:

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Generate a Color Palette from an Image

2007-11-16T08:18:25Z

Table of contents for The Color Series

An introduction to Color
What is Color?
Color Theory - The Basics
Color Theory - Ultimate Resource List
Chosing color and color schemes - Ultimate Resource List
Generate a Color Palette from an Image
Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology
Finding Color Inspiration from Paint

Color Palette Generator

BigHuge Labs Palette Generator: Also generates palettes from Flickr and Photobucket

Color.org

Degreave Color Palette Generator:

Color Hunter:

Pic2Color:

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Chosing color and color schemes - Ultimate Resource List

2007-11-27T11:34:05Z

Table of contents for The Color Series

An introduction to Color
What is Color?
Color Theory - The Basics
Color Theory - Ultimate Resource List
Chosing color and color schemes - Ultimate Resource List
Generate a Color Palette from an Image
Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology
Finding Color Inspiration from Paint

Featured Resource

Website: Colour Lovers

Colour lovers is an absolutely essential resource in my opinion. Their color blog and color trends are great research tools. According to their site:

“COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.

The COLOURlovers™ community is regularly updated with information and examples of the way colors are used in the real world — along with news articles on color trends and interviews with top creative professionals. Here everyone who is interested in the practical applications of color can find an index of color trends as they are happening. Together, they create a color trend index for the entire world provided by users of color worldwide. It’s a tool designers and artists of all kinds use to work with colors in new ways and quickly find out what’s hot and what’s not. This site allows anyone to find their inspiration for color by searching, sorting and filtering through keywords to a color scheme that interests them… or create and share your own!”

There are lots of user generated color palettes for you to chose from and download in a variety of formats. Here is an example of the current top palette.

Other Resources

Daily Color Scheme: “Daily Fresh Color Themes”

Color Tool 2.08: Simple color scheme generator

Color Blender: “your free online tool for color matching and palette design!”

ColorMixer:

Color Combos:

Color Jack:

Color Scheme Generator:

Color Schemer:

Color Schemer Gallery:

Color Wizzard:

Color Wheel:

Kuler: Brilliant site from Adobe Labs

Color Scheme 2:

Color Toy:

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Color Theory - Ultimate Resource List

2007-11-27T11:32:01Z

Table of contents for The Color Series

An introduction to Color
What is Color?
Color Theory - The Basics
Color Theory - Ultimate Resource List
Chosing color and color schemes - Ultimate Resource List
Generate a Color Palette from an Image
Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology
Finding Color Inspiration from Paint

Wikipedia:

“In the arts of painting, graphic design, and photography, color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impact of specific color combinations. Although color theory principles first appear in the writings of Alberti and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci , a tradition of “colory theory” begins in the 18th century, initially within a partisan controversy around Isaac Newton’s theory of color and the nature of so-called primary colors. From there it developed as an independent artistic tradition with only sporadic or superficial reference to colorimetry and vision science.”

Featured Resource

handprint: color vision:

“Vision and color are at the heart of painting. Here is the most comprehensive discussion for artists of color perception, color psychology, “color theory” and color mixing available online, and one of the most comprehensive available anywhere in any format.”

Other Resources

Color Matters:

“Color theory encompasses a multitude of definitions, concepts and design applications. All the information would fill several encyclopedias. As an introduction, here are a few basic concepts.”

Color Theory:

“For a long time, now, there has been a problem that fledgling designers have run into on a constant basis. This problem seems insignificant to most, but in actuality it is quite possibly the most important factor in a design or piece of artwork. Yes, you guessed it…I’m talking about the issue of COLOR.”

Color Wheel Pro- Color Theory Basics:

“Color Theory is a set of principles used to create harmonious color combinations. Color relationships can be visually represented with a color wheel — the color spectrum wrapped onto a circle.”

Wet Canvas- 16 Theories on Color:

“In an age like ours, color is not the luxury it was in past centuries. We are inundated by manufactured color — surrounded, immersed, swimming in a sea of color. Because of sheer quantity, color is perhaps in danger of losing some of its magic. I believe that using color in drawing and painting helps us to recapture the beauty of color and to experience once again the almost hypnotic fascination it once had for us.”

Tiger Color- Introduction to Color Theory

“With colors you can set a mood, attract attention, or make a statement. You can use color to energize, or to cool down. By selecting the right color scheme, you can create an ambiance of elegance, warmth or tranquility, or you can convey an image of playful youthfulness. Color can be your most powerful design element if you learn to use it effectively.”

Color Cube- Color Theory:

“Color is a phenomenon of light caused by how our eyes detect differing qualities of projected or reflected light. Because science and technology has allowed us to understand the physiology of the human eye, to measure wavelengths of light and chart energy patterns, we have come a long way in grasping the complexities of color. Please find below how we define the dimensions of color in terms of hue, lightness, saturation and other characteristics of light. While this article is not the most comprehensive text on color, we hope it serves to increase your understanding of it.”

Colors on the Web - Color Theory:

“In color theory, we often talk about the color wheel. A color wheel is really just the spectrum twisted around so that the violet and red ends are joined. The color wheel is particularly useful for showing how the colors relate to each other and how you can create new colors by mixing two or more colors.”

Worqx - Color Theory Overview:

“If you are involved in the creation or design of visual documents, an understanding of color will help when incorporating it into your own designs. Choices regarding color often seem rather mystical, as many seem to base decisions on nothing other than “it looks right.” Although often told I had an eye for color, the reason why some colors worked together while others did not always intrigued me and I found the study of color theory fascinating.”

DevSource - Color Theory for Developers:

“Color theory may sound like a subject for the Art Department, not for developers. But we’ve all had the experience of choosing a color scheme using the property grid to select named colors and ending up with a really garish color scheme. In an ideal world it might be the case that only our software’s functionality really mattered but, in the world that we actually live in, users are likely to prefer software with a sophisticated color scheme over software with an ugly color scheme.”

Color Theory Primer:

“Now I can’t relate an entire course here, nor would I be qualified to do so, however I will lay down some important primer and definitions garnered from my own personal education and experience, as well as various resource materials.The following color theory is based more on subtractive color which is the color we see around us in a day to day life, or used in painting printing, etc. Additive theory involves Red, Green, Blue (what we see on screen and produced by video devices).”

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Color Theory - The Basics

2007-11-12T06:40:35Z

Table of contents for The Color Series

Ok, lets take you back to school again real quick. The “R”, “G” and “B” you see above are primary colors. In traditional color theory these colors cannot be created by mixing other colors, whereas the overlapping colors you see (Secondary Colors) in the middle are created by mixing the primary colors. The secondary colors are created by adding the primary colors together and is also called “additive color mixing”

RGB is based upon light whereas the CMYK method below is based upon pigments. The CMYK method is called “subtractive color mixing”.

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What is Color?

2007-11-11T09:34:34Z

Table of contents for The Color Series

This post will look at the actual definition of color according to the web.

Dictionary.com:

“the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.”

webexhibits:

“We perceive color just as we perceive taste. When we eat, our taste buds sense four attributes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Similarly, when we look at a scene, our visual nerves register color in terms of the attributes of color: the amount of green-or-red; the amount of blue-or-yellow; and the brightness.”

Online Learning Haven:

“The entire electromagnetic spectrum is made up of ultraviolet, visible light, and infrared. The human eye can only see the light sector of the spectrum. That is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. (ROY G BIV is how I was taught to remember it in school). These are also the colors you see in a rainbow after a rainstorm.
Visible Color

Color is the thing we perhaps notice most about light in the world around us. But why we see colors the way we do all has to do with light. The reason something appears to be the color that does is that the object is absorbing all the other colors of light except the ones we see, which are reflected back to our eyes. If something absorbs all the colors, it appears black, if it reflects everything, it appears white. Color comes from what is called the visible spectrum of light. Scientists measure the wavelengths of light in this spectrum in nanometers or billionths of a meter. Red has the longest wavelength, and violet has the shortest. So, what color we see depends on the wavelength of the light we absorb into our eyes. The primary colors are red, green, and blue, from these colors, every other color can be made.”

RGBWorld:

“Color is all around us. It is a sensation that adds excitement and emotion to our lives. Everything from the cloths we wear, to the pictures we paint revolves around color. Without color; the world (especially RGB World) would be a much less beautiful place. Color can also be used to describe emotions; we can be red hot, feeling blue, or be green with envy.

In order to understand color we need a brief overview of light. Without light, there would be no color, and hence no RGB World. Thank God for light!

Light is made up of energy waves which are grouped together in what is called a spectrum. Light that appears white to us, such as light from the sun, is actually composed of many colors. The wavelengths of light are not colored, but produce the sensation of color.”

This post is part of the Color Series. View the rest of the series here.

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Arno Nel 2.0

SharePoint Magazine articles for July

Connect to Arno Nel on LinkedIn

SharePoint Magazine – Coming Soon

Finding Color Inspiration from Paint

Table of contents for The Color Series

Other Useful Links

Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology

Table of contents for The Color Series

Generate a Color Palette from an Image

Table of contents for The Color Series

Chosing color and color schemes - Ultimate Resource List

Table of contents for The Color Series

Featured Resource

Featured Links

Other Resources

Color Theory - Ultimate Resource List

Table of contents for The Color Series

Featured Resource

Other Resources

Color Theory - The Basics

Table of contents for The Color Series

What is Color?

Table of contents for The Color Series

This post is part of the Color Series. View the rest of the series here.