There are some guidelines on how to create accessible web sites in MOSS and WSS in the following whitepaper

 

Windows SharePoint Services Application Templates makes life alot easier, or at best provides a good starting point.

I have been using the Beta on Vista for a while now. The Release can be found here

Using a Singleton Class to maintain Search Reslults that are persisted to Isolated Storage. Binary Formatters are used to Serialize and Deserialize the data that is captured in a List. IComparer is used to sort the captured data Ascending and Descending

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Using SharePoint WSS v3 / MOSS web service to retrieve data from custom lists.

This book provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of planning the deployment of a solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The audiences for this book are business application specialists, line-of-business specialists, information architects, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who are planning a solution based on Office SharePoint Server 2007. This book also includes links to planning worksheets for recording information related to your planning and deployment activities.

Click the following link to open a Microsoft Word .doc file that you download to your computer and print. This document contains the same information as the "Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007" section of this TechNet Web site. The size of this document is approximately 7 MB.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/64f7f9fb-3994-477f-9e6d-570812c3d5131033.mspx?mfr=true

Recently doing a conceptual design I did a bit of digging around comparing file servers and public folders with WSS v3. Surprising to see how many of the "flaws" in v2 has been enhanced now making it possible to this sort of thing. Below area few good posts I found. 

 

 

• What about Public Folders vs. email enabled Lists in WSS v3?
• Are Public Folders Dead ?

• Is the File Server Dead?

• Gartner had something useful to say too. 

 

Thank to the guys, and hope you find this useful.

This took me a while to figure out and thank to some blog posts I got there.

The DevCon command-line utility comes in 32bit and 64bit and does the job nicely.

Copy the tool form the link above , extract it to a directory ont teh local machine.

Using the cmd windows , navigate to the folder above and execute the follwing command:

devcon.exe install %windir%\inf\netloop.inf *msloop 

press <ENTER>

The following should appear in the cmd window

Device node created. Install is complete when drivers are updated...
Updating drivers for *msloop from C:\Windows\inf\netloop.inf.
Drivers updated successfully.

You now have a Loopback Adpater installed and all that is lect to is create static IPs on both the host and client and you are good to go.

Good Luck