Quick Tabs 6.x-2.0-rc3 Review

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Overview
Ever wanted to quickly add a tabbed box to your site's sidebar like the many you've seen around the web. Then Quick Tabs is the module for you.

The Quick Tabs module allows you to create blocks of tabbed content for views, blocks, nodes and other Quick Tabs. Clicking on the tab menu item makes the corresponding content display instantly, using ajax or you can opt for the non-ajax mode.

Module Usage
7,902 (as of this posting)

Installation/Dependencies
None

Settings
There are two areas where you can change settings.

1. Site Building
2. Site Configuration

Site Building
Here is where you can see a list of all the Quick Tabs you've created, you can edit, delete and clone these existing tabs. You can create new Quick Tabs by clicking 'New QT Block' and setting these options;

1. Set a block title
2. Choose a Quick Tab style
3. Choose to use Ajax - this determines how content of Quick Tabs will be loaded. (Yes: Tab content will be loaded at tab click. or No: All tabs will be loaded at page load.)
4. Create tab menu item by creating,
a) Tab title
b) Tab type - Block, Node, QTab, View
c) Tab content - Select the content to be displayed in the tab
d) Operations - Delete tab menu item

Site Configuration
You can now select one of the default included tab styles;

1. No style
2. Basic
3. Bullets
4. Excel
5. Garland
6. Mac
7. Navlist
8. Phylactere
9. Sky
10.Zen

Documentation
I found the documentation to be moderate and to the point. Not a lot of detail, could have had more info pertaining to creating a custom tab style.

Community activity
Activity and commits have been frequent. The issues (212 open, 490 total) have been resolved fairly quickly and Bug reports
(44 open, 145 total) are kept to a minimum.

Developer friendly/Customization
I would have to say, YES! With four main selectors you can easily customize a pre-existing tab style. And of course you can create your very own from scratch.

Theme-able
Creating a new Tab style is fairly easy and a matter of duplicating one of the preset styles located in the 'tab styles' folder. Each preset Tab style has two style sheets one for normal left to right languages and another for right to left languages.

Conclusion
Pros: I've found that this is one of the easiest and quick modules when it comes to tabbed box navigation. It's really customizable both with setup and with styling.

Cons: Well it's not all bad but I do wish they had more preset themes, one's that were more user friendly and easy on the eyes. For example there is an example photo of the Quick Tabs that is not included in the preset styles, which I feel should have been added because I think it more modern that the others that are included.