Tabbed Navigation
And no, I am not talking about tabbed tables here. If you already knew that you could have horizontal outlines giving you a tabbed-navigation style instead of the routine, boring left-hand navigation that most LN templates offer, then read no further. For the others:
A bit of history first: outlines were introduced in R5. When I used them for the first time, there was a lot of skepticism from my colleagues (a dinosaur even complained that he couldn’t ‘edit’ them, like he could with plain, ole’ navigators
). But hey, outlines can be used for a whole lot of things, than the conventional templates tell us. Some of the most inventive usages I’ve seen are from Chris at his Interface Matters blog – including a fabulous drag’n'drop feature, and some nifty menus.
Now, let’s take a look at what I was trying to do. At our company, everybody uses the same, old template-style interface, and I have been raring to break the mould. One of those attempts resulted in this:
This is surprisingly easy to do, using a horizontal outline. Just create an outline, and play around with the spacing, its that easy! This is what I used: