Website help (ccs)

[tophkissane]

Can someoen please help us out with developing our website? We have been writing in html using online tutorials. We really want to use ccs to make a drop down menu similar to West Side Boiler Invasions. If somone can help us in anyway to make the drop down menu that would be great.
Thanks, Team 1493

[LinuxArchitect]

There are several fine tutorials online that will generate the html and css code for you. Try http://purecssmenu.com/ or http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-dropdown-menu, two that I picked at random.

I could offer personal help, but I'm a big fan of using a platform and letting the platform do all the work. I like wordpress or drupal. No one should be writing html by hand, regardless of what an FRC awards judge might tell you (or me). Of course, you won't win that argument; you never win arguments with judges. But that doesn't make them right.

George
Head Coach, Team 53
and former director of web operations, AOL
34 years on the Internet, and counting

[rachelholladay]

A lot of teams, including myself, base their menus (among other things) off of code from dynamic drive. The have large libraries for many types of movement html pieces. We get the base for out menus and our picture gallery display from there. I recommend exploring what they have and deciding what you like and want to incorporate. Then, download the code and play around with the parameters to customize.
Here is a direct link to their menu section -
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/index.html

I am team 1912's webmaster. Besides to two aforementioned pieces, I do all of the website in raw html and css, all by hand.

[Chris27]

google "jQuery menu" and you should get a ton of demos for different drop down menus along with the html, css, and javascript used.

[~Cory~]

I second J Query because its....

AWESOME. It is a javascript library that can really expand for tons of other things. Plus, it has tons of examples and is very easy to learn

[plnyyanks]

I third jQuery. And it is awesome. There are plenty of examples out there (as stated above), and it's pretty easy to learn and is well documented. We use it almost exclusively on our site. And plus, it's much nicer to type

$('#foo')

rather than

document.getElementById('foo')

+1 for jQuery.

[RyanCesiel]

CSS dropdown menus are nothing new. No need to "reinvent the wheel" here.

We have a similar menu to Westside Boiler Invasion and we use "Smooth Menu" off of Dynamic Drive.