Webpage Drop Down Menus

[pufame]

I have recently begun revamping our team's webpage and I find that it is a pain getting a good navigation system (Meaningly a drop-down menu bar). I have spent countless hours trying to get this one menu (JavaScript based) to work and it works OK now, but looking at outher team's pages I know it could be better. What I'm looking for in the menu is...

1) Based on top - not on side

2) Ease to update - we need to be able to edit it through the code, not in an external app.

3) Ease to move - One of the biggest problems I've been having with the one we use now is it was designed to be stationed at the top-left corner of the page. I did get it to move but it ends up in different places with different browsers

4) Entire button clicks, not just text - sounds like a dumb request but it makes a difference

5) It should be truely "pop-out" meaning the sub-menus shoulod appear on a mouse over, not on a click.

...If any team has a menu like this or know of a place to get a menu like this please reply to this message. I will most likely keep working on our current menu, but like I said before I'm not really a fan of it. Or I may just do my own HTML based menu if all else fails.

Thanks - Pufame

[MrForbes]

beware that some of us surf with js disabled, so having a "noscript" page is a bonus.....

unfortunately FIRST just totally messed up their site by making it all js

[JohnBoucher]

Google for CSS menus. Lots to choose from.

Example http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamat...izontal04.htm#

[fimmel]

the drop down menu i use on http://www.thegreenteam885.org/ is http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...menu/index.htm it is positioned absolutely and can be a horizontal menu or a vertical menu.

/forest

pm me w/ any questions

[GRaduns340]

Originally Posted by squirrel

beware that some of us surf with js disabled, so having a "noscript" page is a bonus.....

unfortunately FIRST just totally messed up their site by making it all js

I don't really see the point to browsing with JS disabled any more. Most browsers are so overprotective that they block JS popups anyway, and as long as you stick to safe browsing practice you shouldn't run into any risk of security problems.

On that, though, I know there are people who browse with JS disabled and for those cases I always make sure the site will function without it. For example, on a drop-down menu, make sure the top layer will be displayed with or without Javascript and make those links to pages that can navigate through that layer. In my case, I am going to be using AJAX for a portion of our team's site this year, to load dynamic content on a portion of that page, but I'll make sure that the most important of those will be the default load, so if JS is disabled, that will still function.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by GRaduns340

I don't really see the point to browsing with JS disabled any more.

I'm allergic to advertising, having js disabled cuts out a noticeable amount on some frequently visited sites

[pufame]

Originally Posted by fimmel

the drop down menu i use on http://www.thegreenteam885.org/ is http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...menu/index.htm it is positioned absolutely and can be a horizontal menu or a vertical menu.

/forest

pm me w/ any questions

This looks pretty much perfect for what I'm looking for. Thanks!

[SamC]

Well, I am working on a new layout for my team's site, and the base for our drop-down menu is Chrome CSS Drop Down Menu (v2.01) from Dynamic Drive. I have customized it A LOT, but even without heavy customization it is still a great menu. Good luck with your site!

PM me if you have any questions about editing this menu system in any way.

[fimmel]

Originally Posted by pufame

This looks pretty much perfect for what I'm looking for. Thanks!

no problem......once you get the hang of adding links its cool
/forest

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by pufame

...If any team has a menu like this or know of a place to get a menu like this please reply to this message.

here's a page that seems to do a lot of what you want, no javascript required...

http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/