re: Cool Tabs

Scott mentions DotMenu and it is pretty cool. If you get a chance stop by and check out some experimental work my friend Chris (CMI Studios) and I worked on for a new navigational system. It was originally nicknamed XBox, but we changed it to HotBox because of the MS gaming platform. It is a bit old, but makes use of some cool IE 5.5+ features (so it will not work in any other browser). The idea was to create a menu system that let you navigate via a map of the site, but also was hidden when not needed. But in the end it was too advanced for most sites, and add a bunch of bloat to every page.

[Listening to: Life, Birth, Blood, Doom - Black Label Society ]

3 Comments

  • Cool!!





    In my other persona I also use Maya and would love to get my hands on the hotbox DHTML code.





    Could I ply it out of you guys with money, love or beverages?

  • That's really cool stuff, Don! Reminds me about the 5 easiest places on a screen for a user to navigate to. All 4 corners and where the mouse already is! ;)

  • Pretty neat Don!





    I'm sure HumanCompiler will back me on this one, that menu could be re-done with Flash to kill the bloat and add to the 'wow' factor.





    In Flash you can set it to be transparent with z-layering etc, so you can set the menu to be the size of the full page and 'dock' back to a set position, when it's expanded is could be dragged around etc.

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