The problem with dropdowns used to be with the search engines - they could not always find the links in the drop downs. Using CSS to do dropdowns gets rid of that problem - but I still don’t like them. Too much mouse work and I always twitch and click the wrong thing. Plus you have all that extra code at the top of your page. Fat pages. Still, I will probably be doing them in a year, when Amazon abandons them.

Amazon doesn’t use tabs anymore! I’m not sure when that happened. I don’t like dropdowns much either, but the Amazon version isn’t too bad confined to that left column. I don’t like them spread across the top of the page AT ALL.

I just learned that it’s not wise to play with the tabs while doing a comment. I wrote a nice long comment, clicked a different tab, and lost it!

When I get more content, I am going to have links down the left side of the page for each tabbed section (the sections will be different than I have now). I hate dropdown menus. I did experiment with a list of links in that gold bar under the tab, but then you are limited by the horizontal space.

I tried to make rounded corners for the tabs using the “Sliding Doors” technique (so that someone using larger fonts still gets a good looking button), but gave up before I got it to work. And I need to put a gradient background image on the tabs to make them look more tabby.

The big trick for these tabs: a one pixel graphic repeated below the tabs for the lower line and a one pixel overlap when the tab is hovered.

And the gold color in the navigation helps a bit with my “too green” problem, or does it?

Your snow photos are gorgeous!