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On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:26:04 +0100 Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > Have you considered that visitors to your site might not want to have 5 > > tabs just from your one site? This is why tabs are not directly under > > the control of the website - they are a *user* feature and should not > > be abused in this way. > > > > Just because you can does NOT mean you should. This 5 tab approach might > > look cool to you now will look tacky and amatuerish to many. > > I second that. Also, when coding pages, do not think about tabs. If the > link is not suitable for opening in a new window then it's not suitable > for opening in a new tab. Tabs = windows as far as the web designer is > concerned, since all browsers handle it themselves. Do not use > javascript or java or any other code to force it to open in a new tab > rather than a new window- that is the users option not yours. > > Simon > Thanks to you both, always ready to learn and to take advice. I have set up my own index file to my website. It includes several links to other sites that I have set up including a photo gallery, a photo blog and an ordinary blog. I tested this out, of course, and this is what I found. As originally set up (that is without any "target=" included) if I opened up one of the links from my home page it would *replace* my home page on the screen. That is to say, the home page disappeared and the new URL screen took its place, in the original tab. I could look at the new page (perhaps the photos in my photoblog), but when I wanted to go back to the home page, if I closed the tab it simply left me with a blank screen. When I included the target="new" in the link, that changed. Now when I open my home page for my web site and then click on one of the links that URL will open in a new tab. I can then look through the photos or whatever and when I want to go back to the home page I just have to close the new tab and I am back to my index page again. That is why I asked the question in the first place. I have added the target= bit on all of the links, not because I expect anyone to open several at once, but so that, whichever link is opened, it will be in a new tab and it will be easy to return to the home page. I hope that is a better explanation of my reasoning. If either or both of you feel that is still a bad way to go I am very happy to take advice. May thanks for your time Neil Winchurst -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html