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Customizable dropdown menus? tbod 02-02-2008
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Posted by tbod on February 2, 2008, 10:24 pm
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 I am trying to find software that can easily generate customizable
dropdown menus. Something that could generate a menu similar to the
one on this page: http://waltoncollege.uark.edu. My problem is that
every different software package I have downloaded will not let me
customize 100% of a menu's attributes. I end up stuck with something
that I can't customize or some dorky built in design with arrows,
weird borders, bullet points, underlines, etc. Can anyone help direct
me to software that can assist me in generating a menu like the U Ark
page? Thank you!

Posted by Adrienne Boswell on February 2, 2008, 11:51 pm
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> I am trying to find software that can easily generate customizable
> dropdown menus. Something that could generate a menu similar to the
> one on this page: http://waltoncollege.uark.edu. My problem is that
> every different software package I have downloaded will not let me
> customize 100% of a menu's attributes. I end up stuck with something
> that I can't customize or some dorky built in design with arrows,
> weird borders, bullet points, underlines, etc. Can anyone help direct
> me to software that can assist me in generating a menu like the U Ark
> page? Thank you!
>

The best software is you - seriously. Google for CSS suckerfish.

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Posted by Stan Brown on February 3, 2008, 1:43 pm
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Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:51:09 GMT from Adrienne Boswell
>
> > I am trying to find software that can easily generate customizable
> > dropdown menus. Something that could generate a menu similar to the
> > one on this page: http://waltoncollege.uark.edu.

If you think those are dropdown menus, you're either fooling yourself
or wearing blinders. When I mouse over any of the items in the menu,
an underscore appears but there is no dropdown.

I rather suspect they've made the rookie mistake of relying on
Javascript for navigation.

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HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on February 3, 2008, 3:39 pm
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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Stan Brown

> Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:51:09 GMT from Adrienne Boswell
>> writing in
>> news:8a5bfcb0-c06c-42e0-ada5-c0e8bc62adc0
@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
>>
>> > I am trying to find software that can easily generate customizable
>> > dropdown menus. Something that could generate a menu similar to
>> > the one on this page: http://waltoncollege.uark.edu.
>
> If you think those are dropdown menus, you're either fooling yourself
> or wearing blinders. When I mouse over any of the items in the menu,
> an underscore appears but there is no dropdown.
>
> I rather suspect they've made the rookie mistake of relying on
> Javascript for navigation.
>

Stan, are you replying to me, or the OP? I told the OP to Google for
CSS suckerfish, since I, too, saw this as dropdowns. At least with CSS
disabled, you still get a working list.

Personally, I don't like these kinds of menus at all since I have
problems getting my mouse to the link before the danged thing goes away.
I don't like it on web sites, and I don't like it in software programs
either.

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Posted by Bergamot on February 3, 2008, 5:08 pm
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Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>
> Personally, I don't like these kinds of menus at all since I have
> problems getting my mouse to the link before the danged thing goes away.

Someone posted this page a while ago. It sums it up pretty well.
http://www.message.uk.com/index.php?page=81

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Berg

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