Comments on: Tabs Aren’t Always Good

By: Adina

Adina — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:37:45 +0000

Make it easier for visitors to reach your home page easily and from any where in your site. Have clear headings for each paragraph …..

By: jafer

jafer — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:54:28 +0000

I like the look of them, it seems cleaner to me.

By: keithmaxx

keithmaxx — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:48:53 +0000

I do thank heavens that tabs were created to help me conveniently sort out information on my pages, but I do agree that it should not be abused because it can have performance side effects as pointed out earlier.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:26:38 +0000

I agree that situations where tabs are justified are extremely rare. Tabs are usually just stuffing everything possible instead of figuring out what is needed.

I had block with tabs in my theme natively but it degraded ugly with JS disabled. Got rid of tabs after distributing content to rest of sidebar and static pages.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:12:18 +0000

@vivek – I wouldn’t go as far as saying they’re bad in all situations – I favor them on sites that require them for a lot of content.

I’d suggest you test the tabbed feature on your blog and see how it works, what readers think of it, and whether it really works – bringing in more visitors to those normally overlooked pages.

By: vivek

vivek — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:38:59 +0000

this comes at a time when I was just thinking of getting a tabbed sidebar widget.
But now I will consider your opinion.