Hello

On the front page of expressionengine.com is a very nice tabbed blue gadget/widget that introduces and explains expression engines features and benefits.

What is this type of gadget called?

And does Expression Engine allow you to create them?

Many thanks in advance.

Hiya,

If you meant the tabs that have - Introduction & Overview, Extremely Flexible - and so on and so forth then this is done using Javascript (jQuery). Not too sure of the exact name for it I think it is just a tabbed interface.

This can definitely be done in conjunction with ExpressionEngine but it isn’t a built-in option as such. Basically if you can build it using standard HTML and javascript then this can be integrated into ExpressionEngine in your templates.

Some links to tabbed interfaces are :

jQuery Documentation

jQuery UI Tabs

jQuery For Designers - jQuery Tabs

ID Tabs

There are a lot lot more out there and I’m sure other users in these forums will have some great links to others as I don’t generally use this sort of effect but hopefully those will provide a starting point. You could also peek into the source code of the main index page of this site to see how it was done too

Best wishes,

Mark

Cool, thanks Mark.

I’ll have a look at the jQuery links you mentioned, unfortunately my web coding skills are minimal but ill see how far I get