Building a Shelf in WordPress
April 30th, 2006
In case you missed this last week, Owen offers up a tutorial on adding a “shelf” to your blog. For those not familiar with the “shelf”, it’s a AJAX-ified pulldown that you can add additional content to, but is “hidden” until the user clicks the tab (or what ever you use trigger the action). I’ve seen “shelves” contain an “about” section, flickr images, just about anything can be added. Well written tutorial, definitely worthy of a read and a del.ico.us bookmark.
I used a shelf with a hidden link sometime ago to provide a special price list for bigger clients who wanted “wholesale” pricing. It worked fine and customers enjoyed that this invisible link, seen only as the cursor passed over it, was our secret. If one of them emailed a request for special pricing I just replied with a short description of the location of the link. Most of them found it first time around then used it thereafter. People reacted very favorably to this, it somehow got a lot of “sexy” and “mysterious” types of comments. The tutorial and demonstration were very good, as well as the example-sites.
Thanks, Arthur Browning