The view above-the-fold is called the viewport

I always wondered what's the technical name for the area of the screen that is above-the-fold of the monitor. Actually I think the expression above-the-fold is jargon taken from the print world. In any case I stumbled across this definition from an online resource webreference.com.

The view above-the-fold is called the viewport. Here is the technical definition:
The canvas is a large flat space on which the document is rendered, and the viewport is the bit in your browser's window where the document appears. If the canvas is bigger than the viewport, only a part of the canvas will be visible at any time, and browser will usually allow you to scroll around the document using a scroll bar or something similar.

How to evaluate information architecture of your intranet sites before migrating them to MOSS.

If you are moving from 2003 to moss the best way to assess the restructuring is to logically categorize the content of sites in your current environment. Here how I did it:

Create a list in excel with the following columns:

• Site Name
  
• Site URL
  
• Purpose
  
• Target audience,
  
• Region
  
• Owner
  
• Owner Contact info
  
• Secondary owner
  
• Secondary owner contact info
  

You may have additional columns but these should be the base. Once this list is created you can then determine how content should be grouped. You want to group together sites that target the same audience. For example, if the content on the site target's users in a division your MOSS implementation would have a collection for the division. The top level site would be the homepage for the division and then each department's site would be a sub site.

SharePoint is a beast!

Trying to wrap my hands around has been challenging.
I am only looking at it from a designer’s perspective which comparatively is a minute fraction of the collective code that has gone into this product and still it is so much.
It really makes me curious to know how the product came about. Did it go thru a traditional project lifecycle with iterative design and review cycles? But I suspect that a developer built it and then when it was built that is when they called in the user experience people.