Turning Static Pages into a tabbed menu

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nutsmuggler
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Turning Static Pages into a tabbed menu

Post by nutsmuggler »

Hi folks.
I am setting up a blog to keep in touch with a few friends.
The blog is meant to work as the website main page; I am planning to use static pages to add link, a photo gallery, and possibly a phorum.
I was wondering wether it is possible to use the static pages plugin to make a tabbed menu under the serendipity banner area; I'd like to get something similar to this page of my website:
http://www.cnomania.it/banda.php
As you see in this page you can browse "presentazione", "info", "contattaci" as in a tabbed page...
I figure it is not that difficult to use the static pages plugin and pump its data into the layout...
Any idea?
Cheers,
Davide
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Post by wesley »

Static pages stay all on its own. You can't use that to display tabs on every
page.. i.e. blend it with the rest of the stuff. It's not intended for this.

For this you need my 'HTML Nugget on Page' plugin. It's in the s9y plugin
repository at SourceForge CVS listed as event_page_nugget.

Look at my blog. I have the links right under the banner. I think this is the
sort of thing you want to do. You'll notice that the links are displayed on
all pages. This is possible with 'all pages' option in the plugin config.

Get the plugin installed and use the default 'top of the page' location to
place the 'tab' on top of the page, or under the banner, depending on how
you look at it. Decorate as needed.
I make s9y plugins, too.
My s9y blog depends on them. :)
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Post by garvinhicking »

Of course, to get more fluent integration with your blog you may want to create your own template where you can add menus, javsacript and anything necessary easily, by editing the *.tpl files (See s9y.org docs for further info)

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Garvin
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