Thank you all
Sorry about that. Got back from a "weekend" away on Tuesday and haven't had chance to blog since.
A massive thanks for all the feedback to Monday's request for advice. All of it was invaluable. Especially Dave's link to the Business Gateway. Just the kind of thing I was looking for.
It's going to take me some time to get settled down but I shall still be blogging while I'm at it. I've got a folder on my desktop called "codestore", full of things I put aside as being blogworthy. Time to sort through them all me thinks...
I see from Laurent's site that A List Apart has a new look. To celebrate they have published three new articles. I love this one. It doesn't matter what fancy things are going on behind the scenes sometimes, it's the interface that will most please your users!
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Yeah, that is a nice technique, and I like the whole premise of the article. I do have one problem, though. Those of us who are graphically-challenged will never be able to create decent looking images in PhotoShop. Are we stuck with ugly-looking tabs then? I'd love to see a technique that didn't require me to be a graphic designer as well as a developer...
That's the trouble Rob. Unless you have *some* graphical skills it will always be hard to get the GUI just right...
The nice thing with this article is that the tabs are quite qeneric. You could plug them in to any application and they would look ok. It's a shame they didn't supply the source file for the graphic so we could tweak the colours a little...
I thought the article referenced was good . . . if I wanted to design a site using tabbed navigation. I personally feel tabbed navigation using background images is a bit overrated and cannot stand having to wait for those images to display.
However, I actually do think the method in this article lends itself well to the graphic-design challenged by using combinations of relatively simple images and floating them appropriately to get the shape and display that you want.