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Simple Tabbed Box using CSS


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I apologize, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on to WinDev. Even though, for some, this would be considered off-topic for WinDev I wanted to get this to WinDev and I’m sure it would be helpful to someone. The part that triggered me to post this to WinDev is its simplicity. Well, let me reveal. Here is a simple article on how to create tabbed boxes with YUI tabs. Tabbed Bars are nothing but tabs like what you might have seen on most of the web sites that helps aide in navigation. This tutorial outlines 3 simple steps to get a clean little tabbed interface.

It has around 10 lines of JavaScript includes, approximately 25 lines of your HTML (this depends on your need) and around 45 lines of CSS. That simple.

Here is the full article.

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Written by askars on March 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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25 Rounded Corner Techniques with CSS

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Written by askars on January 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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Revisiting Microsoft’s “Vista PC” concept

Windows Longhorn PCWhen Microsoft shipped the “Microsoft industrial design toolkit” to over 70 original equipment manufacturers last year before the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft hoped to get rid of the “beige box” ideology and turn PCs into objects of desire. More than a year on, as charming John Hodgeman might be, the sad fact is that most OEM PCs today with a few premium exceptions are still bulky boxes with just as many stickers are wires connected.

It might probably take more than a year for an industry thriving around function over form to do the opposite, but Apple’s iPod and iMac demonstrates most people are even willing to sell body-parts to look good. Apart from the minority who likes to tinker with the hardware, there’s no reason why the PC can’t be more compact and integrated.

Carbon DesignToday I stumbled across Carbon Design Group’s portfolio, a Seattle-based industrial design company who’s worked on many Microsoft projects including the X360 controller, racing wheel, LifeCam, Laser Desktop 6000 and Windows Home Server. One other was the “Vista PC“. A set of 9

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Written by Long Zheng on September 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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SXSW: How to Create A Kickass In-House Design Team

SXSW: How to Create A Kickass In-House Design TeamAt this year’s South by South West Festival (Burning Man for geeks), former Microsoft design director Tjeerd Hoek made an appearance as a panelist on the session titled “How to Create A Kickass In-House Design Team”. The full-length podcast recording has been finally released just a few weeks ago. It is definitely worth listening to if you have an interest in design, working in an in-house design team, or some insight into how Microsoft Design worked.

Tjeerd, for those who don’t know, was the Microsoft design director for Windows until April this year. He was largely responsible for managing the entire Windows design process including Windows Vista from start to finish. Alongside Tjeerd was a host of notable design directors from Google, Intuit and Hoover’s.

The panel was focused around “in-house design teams”, that is design groups inside a large organization dedicated to serving the design needs of the entire organization. Microsoft’s in-house design group is appropriately named, “Microsoft Design“. As such, Microsoft Design is responsible to design not just the user interface but every aspect of user experience including notably packaging and brand

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Written by Long Zheng on September 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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Designing .NET Class Libraries

Krzysztof Cwalina, Program Manager, .NET Framework Team, Microsoft has a nice session on Designing .NET Class Libraries. Watch it from here. It is very informative.

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Written by askars on May 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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Microsoft’s plans for the Zune

Take one look at the Zune and you know that even though its a great media player, it’s not one to really create any splash in the digital music industry, and definitely not one to pose much of a threat to the iPod, the current leader in the media player market. Why?

Because Zune wasn’t meant to create a splash nor pose any threat to other competing products……yet.

To understand Microsoft’s strategy, you need to realize that the Zune is much more than a media player, its a platform. With the Zune out of the door Microsoft is not only gaining a customer base, but an assortment of accessories and services specific to the Zune, as well as media content providers.

A lot of work is being done on Zune as we speak, and the best part about it is that you’ll be able to get most of the planned features with a firmware update.

Here’s a list of some of the things planned:

- Buy songs, music videos, movies, TV Shows, etc. from the Zune Marketplace. You’ll also be able to purchase accessories online from Microsoft partners.

- Get a whole range of free content like artist interviews, video biographies, podcasts, etc.

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Written by jameskyton on January 15th, 2007 with no comments.
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