UKBL- Easy Menu Tabs
I've been playing around with creating some Menu Tabs for the top of the forums, These ones do not mess up your CSS or use Javascript and you can have it set up and running on your forums in minutes.
Credits: Christopher Ware ~ Thanks
DEMO:
Demo Tabs
Members Site Live Demo's:
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http://www.itproservices.net/forums/index.php?styleid=10
I've done this in a neutral color, so it'll be fine for light colored forums, I will add some darker ones and a black one later if requested
So what do you do???
Installation is sooooo simple your gonna love this, First you need to open the html file with notepad or similar, and make a few edits, Mainly the location of the 2 gif's and the links to the urls or onsite links.
so in Note pad look for this..
Code:
background:url("tableft1.gif") no-repeat left top;
and change the word tableft1.gif to the directory you have your images in, if you use photobucket or a similar storage site then your code would look something like this
Code:
background:url("http://i4875.photobucket.com/albums/rr1/ukbusinesslive/tableft1.gif") no-repeat left top;
Then you look for the other one here
Code:
background:url("tabright1.gif") no-repeat right top;
and basically do the same as the first edit.
So thats it with the gif edits, you still need to scroll further down to the menu edits
here
Code:
<ul>
<!-- CSS Tabs -->
<li id="current"><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/topsite/"><span>Forums Topsite</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/group.php?"><span>Social Groups</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/online.php?"><span>Who's Online</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/ukbuli-21"><span>UKBL Bookstore</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/usercp.php"><span>Your CP</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php"><span>Member List</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/"><span>UK Business Live</span></a></li>
basically you can have as many tabs as you need and you change the navigation from the top code, its pretty easy to do, First you add the Url of the site or link that you want tabbed, Then paste it to the first part of the tab, Then after <Span> you write the name of the tab, Easy
if you want extra tabs just add another line like this
Code:
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php"><span>Member List</span></a></li>
Cut and Paste the HTML Code to the header template of your style, and upload the gifs to your chosen directory, be it /images/misc or even photobucket.
For Dark Colored Sites
If your Site is Black or has a Black Background you'll want black tabs like this
Then you'll have to Download the Black_ Tabs.zip This include a new code that you need to edit as well as the 2 Black Gifs to get the correct colour. Instructions are the same as above
Please Click install if you like it 
If you want to see a nice collection of downloadable Menu Tabs, Veiw My Post in the Graphics forum, and download what you need
UKBL- Easy Menu Tabs Collection Vol 1 - vBulletin.org Forum
vBAdvanced Integration
Ther seem to be a slight problem with users that use vBAdvanced Integration
The cure is quite simple, all you need to do when you've edited your code is to cut it in half and put the CSS element into the additional CSS box in your Style manger's "additional CSS" box, Then the last bit, the part which contains the menu links (See below)
Code:
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="tabsH">
<ul>
<!-- CSS Tabs -->
<li id="current"><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/topsite/"><span>Forums Topsite</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/group.php?"><span>Social Groups</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/online.php?"><span>Who's Online</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/ukbuli-21"><span>UKBL Bookstore</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/usercp.php"><span>Your CP</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php"><span>Member List</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/"><span>UK Business Live</span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thats the part which just goes at the
VERY end of your header.
Enjoy VBa Members
To Open in new Browser Window
To get the link to open in a new browser window, what you do is add the
target="_blank" attribute to your link tag, like this in your Menu Links area
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/"
target="_blank"><span>UK Business Live</span></a></li>
If you do that to the ones that you want to open in a new window, then you don't navigate away from your site
Changing individual Tab Font Colors
You can add some html markup between the <span> where the tab name is
Just change the first <Span> Value to
Code:
<span style="color:Green">
So your Menu Line would look something like this
Code:
<li><a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/topsite/"><span style="color:Green">Forums Topsite</span></a></li>
Hope that helps, just change the color
Green, for a color of your choice
You could use a tab with a different color text to point to your Paypal Account and call it donations
Worth a try
Tab Color Changes on Hover
You need to add a span attribute to the CSS
Dependant on what tab design you are using, find the following in the code
Code:
#tabs1 a:hover {
background-position:0% -42px;
}
and change it to this
Code:
#tabs1 a:hover span {
color:#000000;
background-position:0% -42px;
}
Where #000000 (hex Code for Black) is the new color that you want, so now you should have the tabs show up as normal and when you hover the cursor over them with the above hex code the text will be
BLACK
Just change this color hex to whatever hex color you want
