Why hide the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010

Had a weird case of a developer hiding the quick launch recently.

Why on earth would you do this for a company Intranet?

This madness came about because a designer who had no knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Server from a functional viewpoint decided to do a design that omitted the most practical navigational component in a site!

Then upon reading a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Server Development and Branding book, it mentioned how you could hide this. The following page had another example where it was obvious this wasn't done. Just because you can do this, doesn't mean you should!

Have to now rip it completely out of the master, so it cam be added to pages on the sites as a web part.

Noting that this Intranet is due by the end of this month and the taxonomy question was only just raised at the end of last week.

Whether it's a web site or an intranet, a good designer will speak with someone knowledgeable about the functionality of the underlying content management system.

The irony is that most of the impracticable designs are mainly copies of other examples you can find on the intranet but they can cause so much grief when they do not fit the system.

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