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highdots.com — A software that generates cool looking Cross Browser CSS Tabs

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  • ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18In all honesty, it looks fairly good, but will the user actually learn how to code using this software?
    • FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -31/+5cheers
    • BobMysterioso, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Does the user need to learn how to code? Sometimes, yes. Other times the user just wants to get the project done and move on. Its a pretty good looking product.
    • noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18i know how to code, but if this will create a thoroughly working menu skeleton for me, quickly, then GIMMIE THAT. D.R.Y..
    • Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The code looks very well written too.. I just created a menu to test it. It even uses the hover image offset technique to decrease the number of images and speed up loading. If I'm in a position where I don't need to concentrate on code very much I will definitely use this!
    • xxCBxx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31» Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003 «

      Cross browser, but not cross platform. Pity.
    • hazlett, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Do you need to know how to build an automobile in order to drive one ? Do you need to know how to make a pair of shoes in order to wear them ?

      What does knowing how to code have to do with making a web site ?

      Perhaps you are one of the tecno-elites who feel we should all learn what you have learned.............
    • dogshaft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@hazlett
      "Do you need to know how to build an automobile in order to drive one ? Do you need to know how to make a pair of shoes in order to wear them ?"

      Your analogy is incorrect. You're comparing the creator to the user. So no, you don't have to know how to build a website to be a user of a website, but you do need to know how websites work to build a website.
    • n00854180t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@xxCBxx, in which situations couldn't you run it under something like Wine? It's a relatively simple program, displaying images, common controls and some menus, and does only one main function: generate text files. I don't imagine it would be terribly difficult for an adept user to get working properly.
  • joblessjunkie, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22Why is this a Windows download and not a web app?
    • speedfoot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10i agree that this would be good as a web app, but at least it's a start for someone else to develop on this idea further
    • ricodued, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Because some people can't develop for the web but are perfectly capable of writing local software apps.
    • moyness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Because sometimes people (need/can only/should/prefer to) get things done without getting online.
  • fernando26, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Only 2 comments and already Dugg?

    http://duggmirror.com
  • moxx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Seems like a nice program, but personally I have spent a lot of time learning CSS/HTML/PHP so I can do this, but on a deadline this could come into use.
  • mongeau, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1Bah! They ripped these tabs from http://exploding-boy.com/images/cssmenus/menus.html . He posted those many months ago.
    • mongeau, on 10/12/2007, -22/+2Why the hell are you digging me down???

      See: http://www.exploding-boy.com/2006/05/07/css-tab-designer/
    • iskevinpgay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Yep, and they give credit to him as well in the program. So relax.

      This software is based on the work of the following persons :

      Tab Menus 1-12 by Exploding-boy.com
      Tab Menus A-K by Exploding-boy.com
      Vertical Menus 1-14 by Exploding-boy.com
      E-lusion 1-12 by Ian Main
      Square, Rounded, Circle and Pyramid tabs by Dan Cederholm
      Sliding Doors by Alistapart
      Taming List by Alistapart
      Vertical Buttons by Claire Campbell
      Horizontal Buttons by Claire Campbell
      3D Imenu in blue by Ingo Turski
      Eric Meyer's tabbed navbar by Eric A. Meyer
      ZDnet Emulation by Terence Ordona
      Contrast (smhill) by S.M.Hill
      SuperfluousBanter 2003 by Dan Rubin
      Zeldman's DWWS menu by Jeffrey Zeldman
      All others alternate colors / styles are modified versions of one of the above styles and were produced by our team (unless otherwise stated).
  • riquock, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1" The page you are trying to access does not exist.
    Please select a page from the main menu. "
  • diemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Direct link to the download
    http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/175939-ALVX/css_tab.zip
    • doctorperv, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2diemonkey rules. thanks for the link to the file. i love you.
  • Cabanaman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0I used this for my navigation. I suck at CSS, although I hope to learn it soon.

    Woot, 100th digg.
  • rtphokie, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2This digg brought to you by http://www.dzone.com/ credit where credit is due
  • robohoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Is it just me or does this app crash when trying to generate the HTML or define the path to a web browser?
  • spdorsey, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I use a Mac. Aside from the fact that I can code these by hand pretty easily, I'm a little bit mad that I wouldn't be able to use this app even if I did find it to be useful.
    • kawsper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Write your own app then based on your experience with HTML/Java-script and CSS. Maybe even make it a web application, a lot of us would appreciate your effort.
  • porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Sure, CSS-based navigation tabs are all the rage now, but next year will people be saying things like, "OMFG dude CSS tabs are sooo 2006! We're all onto Web 2.3 now!"

    I've actually avoided jumping onto the CSS-based tabs fad since everyone is doing it, and also I wanted to have a website that looks different than everyone else's "web 2.0 cliche per kilosecond" website.
    • kawsper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Your homepage in your profile points to http://www.lowpixelcount.com/ i don't think that the fact that your design is different is a good thing here. A little reconstruction but i don't find it pretty or nice.
    • azuriel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If you haven't jumped on what you call the "CSS tab bandwagon" yet, what ARE you using on your websites? Tables? That's so 1990's.
    • Padwah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1But you are using CSS tabs on your site??
  • egze, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3marked as spam
  • kyrobeshay, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3NOT FOR MACS

    OMG, THE RACISM.
  • vetal17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3just install the application using Wine and then copy the "style" folder.
    In that folder you'll find the folders with all the CSS code
  • fakeplastic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Tab Menu 9 looks great - pity it doesn't work in FF2. :(
  • Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This would be cooler if it was the ajax/css tabs for internal page transitions.. otherwise it's just plain old navigation. Some of these were originally built for that.. why was that stripped from the code?
  • azuriel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think AJAX is quite that easy to drop into a website, from my experience. If you want to use it just to animate freakin page transitions, that's unnecessary and a bad thing. The less javascript the better. I'm not against AJAX, I just don't like sites that fail to degrade properly when JS is turned off.

    Additionally, what is the need for a program like this? I wrote my own version of A List Apart's Sliding Doors, and just copy it whenever I need a menu. Vertical? Horizontal? No problem, change one line and it's done. This program only seems useful for people who can't make menu images, generating the (X)HTML and CSS is really not that hard.
  • Miniman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Do you think it would work well with my site?
    http://www.files.eocfu.com
  • SiLeNtHuNtER, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Styles are clean and neat.>!!
  • BingeBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This site has error in its css. I guess if you can't code or design and are a windows user it could be helpful.
  • stylesheets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Excellent tool for newbies!
  • kleigh, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1anyone know where this company went. Were they bought out? their link is dead for weeks now
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