Do magic with the 'Invite' and 'My Page' tabs

[Deckard Cain]

Hi!
After getting really annoyed with the limit of 14 tabs, and having two slots taken up by 'Invite' and 'My Page' I decided to do something better out of it.

Normally you have 'Home' 'Invite' and 'My page' as your three first tabs on your page.

Invite is set up to be visible to members and u can't change that property.

'My page' is set up to show for everyone and u can't change that property either.

What u can do is change the text of them :-P

Hence I changed 'Invite' to 'My'. It always shows for members and never to visitors not logged in, perfect.

I added sub-menu-items to this 'My' menu instead, making the main menu 'My' a place holder. Though if you click 'My' in the main menu bar, you will be transfered to the invite page, a smaller sacrifice according to me.



The 'My page' is instead transformed to 'Members'. This works excellent too as a menu place holder with sub menu items to it.

And even if you click on 'Members' it works in a good way if you're logged in. If you're not, you get transfered to the sign-up page, not the best but a small price to pay.



This way I finally got a way to use the Invite-tab and got a way better use of the 'My page' tab. I 'won' two tabs in my race to stay at max 14 :)

You can check it out at www.teamhot.ning.com

[Hazrat Amin]

Cool. Thanks!

[Garfield Creator]

As Paris Hilton would say "That's hot" Good job. Jealous I didn't think of it first. :-) Thank you for sharing this. Looks like annoyance is the mother of invention.

[Deckard Cain]

Hehe, it sure can be :)

[Janettee McCrary]

I really wish they would make all of it moveable and customizable.

[Carrie]

I need instructions - detailed - on changing Tab names. I wish to change 'Notes' to 'Curriculum'.

The back end is confusing because there are many instances of the tab names in the list of actions.

THANK YOU in advance.

[Laura]

Hi Carrie,

Tabs themselves are marked as such:

Thanks,
Laura

[Carrie]

But the "notes' still say 'Notes' as the built in text. How do I get EVERY instance of NOTES to read 'Curriculum'?

What I want is instead of 'create new note' it reads 'create new curriculum' and instead of 'see all notes' it reads 'see all curriculum'.

thanks.
-carrie

[Carrie]

AH! Thanks! It is SCARY in there!! SO afraid to break code.

I was able to change all but one instance. The default Notes_home won't change. But I can live with it!

[Carrie]

Can you take a peek at my home page?

it's here

Notice the section called 'Program Info' (instead of Curriculum)

See how one is still called 'Notes Home'? I think that is the Note name. How can I edit a specific note's name?

[Jaz O.]

So what was the solution to this?

~ Jaz

[Deckard Cain]

Glad you like it :)

I hope you succed in doing so, just use sub tabs basic function as Bob said, and look at this thread for more info on shortcuts to different sections of your site:

http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/tab-layout?xg_source=activity...

[Laura]

Another really great use of tabs: http://www.fightwithtools.org/