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brightonjon
Inspiring
August 17, 2011
Question

Creating a tab navigation

  • August 17, 2011
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Hi everyone.

I have a course where I'd like to put additional info about 6 aspects of a topic in a notebook style tab navigation at the bottom of the screen.

And it struck me that there's no obvious easy way to draw the outline, but plenty of obvious but difficult ways to do it

The easiest way I can think of is to do it in Photoshop, with a rectangle for the text area and two layers for each tab, one selected, one not. Then I can hide/unhide the right layer combination for each different selection option and save to png before importing into Cp, finally adding transparent captions for the tab labels and content. Or possibly doing the labels in Photoshop too.

Or is there an simpler way that I'm looking straight past? Anyone created a navigation like this before?

Thanks

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    danmorrisonline
    Inspiring
    August 17, 2011

    Not sure if I'm allowed to recommend a competitor's blog, but this is a great resource for design ideas. This post is about designing a tabbed notebook. Not exactly what you seem to have in mind, but it might give you some ideas.

    http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/rapid-e-learning-workshop-how-to-create-a-tabbed-notebook/

    Dan

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    brightonjonAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 17, 2011

    Powerpoint! Of course!

    Dan,you've saved my colleagues a lot of discomfort: I tend to swear a lot when I'm using Photoshop

    Should be a 5 minute job and the format painter can take care of the different combinations for highlighted tabs.

    Thanks

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