Menu system

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Roger

I tried Jim's Menus and thought they were nice until I tried to move them to
pages in subdirectories. I have been using buttons for menus etc but find
that 99% of your "hits" are to button image files.

Can someone suggest a good menu system that can be used in Front Page. In
particular, I would like to put the menu system in a DWT and be able to use
it in subdirectories, which is where I had problems with Jim's Menus.

I am not dedicated to any menu system but would like to find something where
I can set up menus and submenus and not have to establish buttons and layers
to deal with each menu item and submenu.

Roger
 
"Jim" = Jim Buyens?

I have had no problems with his menus when using DWT's and
folders/subfolders, however I used text/CSS buttons, not images.
Background images swapped in and out with CSS will also be a good idea,
since this requires only 2 or 3 images for the entire menu. (or 4 images
if a different image pair is used for the menu leaf items.)

At http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/ I now use the menu described here:
http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/menus/tutorial/

You should also look at
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jonspivey/menus/index.html
 
No, Jim=Jim Sayler. Jim's DHTML Menu v5.7 It is an elaborate js system.
My problem with his system may be that he has a variable buildDir
="includes/" that references the directory where included files are to be
found. That reference no longer works when you are in a subdirectory. I
don't know how to reference the web root in an absolute fashion. If I could
do that I might be able to get the menus to work.

I will also look for Jim Buyens menus and the links you sent.

Thanks

Roger
 
Change the link to root relative.
That is:
Change "includes/" to "/includes/"

Note that the menu will now fail in a disc-based web (including preview
in browser) but should be OK when published. This is because
"/includes" refers to a folder off the root of the drive, that is (for
example) c:\includes even though the web may be in
c:\Documents...\My Documents\my webs\webname

If you use an all JavaScript menu system, make sure you have a text only
alternative for those 6 or 10% that have JavaScript turned off or not
available.

Jim Buyens version is at
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=28
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Thanks for all your help. I am going to give up on the JS system and stick
to the a css layers system, that I am actually using now. I think your
point of using background images and getting away from having an interactive
button for each menu item will solve my problem of having way too many
images.
 
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