You may want to catch up on my initial rounded corner discussion before reading this.
If you remember, we left off with a nice-looking tab design for use on a web page:
There are still several flaws with this that I’d like to fix. To recap:
Rounded corners tend to get a lot of hype in the web design world. Some don’t consider a site design complete until all its pointed corners are erased from existence. Regardless of your stance on them, they do have a certain pleasantness to them; staring at them can induce calmness in a user. And heaven know, a calm user equals a happy IT support person.
But I digress. Today’s instructional anecdote came about after I got sick to death of looking at a poorly designed rounded corner implementation on an internal web application that I support at my company. First off, allow me to mention that our users are required to use Internet Explorer, something that is terribly common in Windows-based organizations. We have a lot of web applications from vendors who in turn require Internet Explorer, so we don’t give them another browser to use.
One relatively low tech thing I’ve never understand is legal-sized paper. There are few things in life more annoying than it. It doesn’t fit into normal filing folders, and many (most?) file cabinets won’t take it either. I honestly don’t know what to do with it, so I usually just end up “filing” it away into a recycling or shredding bin.
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