I have just implemented some nifty sidebar tabs for navigating around on this blog. I think they look great. They use the javascript provided at OnlineTools called DomTab (Navigation tabs with CSS and DOMscripting). You can download and view the working example at the OnlineTools website. I searched out a way to do this after I saw the very neat navigation tabs used at AlwaysBeta and their post on how to use them. Unfortuneatly, I couldn’t figure out what they where doing (I’m a cut and paste / follow the example pattern kind of guy, and they didn’t provide much in the wat of how to [thats not a knock against them btw]). In the alwaysbeta version, they have incorporated some slick slide and fade effects — to savy for this guy. I’m just happy mine works (tested in IE, Opera, and FF using XP). » Read the rest of the entry..

Not that at this time, these intructions are valid for V163 only. Thats not to say they won’t work with later versions (I’m sure it will), but finding the exact code to change may be hard. Anyway, read through them all before starting. In some cases, you may want to just comment things out instead of deleting them (read how to do this at the end). And feel free to ask questions.

1. Install http://semiologic.com/software/static-front/ and don’t activate just yet
2. Create a page and give it the slug of home. This will become your static front page.
3. Create a category called blog, and shove all posts into this category or just move all other categories into it. (you don’t have to call it blog FYI)

4. [optioinal] Edit your permalink structure. You cannot remove /category/ from the permalink structure so I changed

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