Can we do 3 menus in one page?

Poster: Andres
Dated: Friday January 30 2004 - 20:34:49 GMT

CURRENT STATUS
Our site has a menu with external links, "external menu". It works well so far. I made this menu not scroll, by reming it out (//....). I gues I could also do it by deleting the followscroll line, or setting it to 0. This external menu starts 100 pixels down to stand clear of the corner photo.

WISH LIST
I would like to have a menu with links to external information, a menu with internal links and one for visitors to voice their opinions by email to different sources.

A horizontal menu, "internal menu", would be added to link to internally available information. This one would not scroll either. It should start 150px from the left border, to stay clear of the photo. The top offset should be the amount necessary to make it flush with the picture. The problem I see is that the top and left values for the internal menu will be different than for the external menu.

A third menu, let's call it "email menu", would be available in below the external menu. This one would have to be set x number of pixels from the top to avoid superimposing it with the external menu considering that 43% of my visitors use 800x600 screens.

QUESTIONS
My questions are:
1- How do I set the offset values for the position of the different menus? I only see one place where this can be changed in the code above.
1a- do I need separate files for the different menus?
1b- is it possible to do it in one menu_data.js file?
1c- how do I do this?
If I have options to accompish this goal
1d- which option would require the smalles data transfer?

2-Since the internal menu submenu items would look better not superimposing on the parent choice, how to I set for different _subOffsetTop and _subOffsetLeft?

Thank you for your time and patience.

Andres

http:www.foxboroeducation.org

Poster: Maz
Dated: Saturday January 31 2004 - 2:30:28 GMT

Without going into the exact placement of menus, yes it is possible to have 3 menus, just make a different style name where appropriate for different styles.

You can use offset in each menu style but I don't offhand remember the correct term, you can probably find it in forum search on milonic site menu style listing.

I found that on a slow modem connection and old browsers 3 menus did slow things down, it may be better now than it was at first, haven't tested it recently.

If you can put menus into one, I would do that. You can make the menu look like separate menus just by the way you display the main menu, and then treat each submenu as if it was a separate menu, I think that is what you were saying.

You could make menu items email addresses instead of urls.

The best and easiest placement is to use top=n; & left=n; *n=number of pixels.

You could do quite a lot with a good layout plan.

If you are saying you have internal login and external site, that could be accomplished too with javascript to show the menu when logged in.

Try setting something up and we'll be here if you get stuck.

Warm regards,
maz

From bad to worse!!

Poster: Andres
Dated: Sunday February 1 2004 - 16:20:10 GMT

Maz, thank you for your reply. In light of what you said, I think I will leave it scrolling on the external menu and add the email options to that menu.

The internal menu, which does not require password, would still be preferable at the top in a horizontal position IM(VVV)HO.

Now for the kicker... When I preview the menus from DW on my local machine the menus look fine. When I go browse from the internet I see NOTHING! Furthermore, when I visit Milonic's site, I can not see the samples of the menus or any of the menus at all. Neither can I see the three images at the bottom of the index page that point to writers of excellent code.
Our Organization's site
On iMac G4 with OSX (10.2.6) and Safari 1.0 (v85) and the same if I use IE 5.2.2 (5010.1).... interesting... BUT when I browse with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1
it works just fine...

Did I inadvertently(read dumb neophyte) mess the mmenudom.js or the mmenuns4.js files? All I did to those files was add my license number to them.

I wish I could say it is because of my inability to learn and comprehend, but I have evidence that I can handle complex matters.

Any ideas on how to solve this one?

Poster: John
Dated: Sunday February 1 2004 - 21:23:29 GMT

I don't see any problems with your code, and it was certainly not the additions of your license number (BTW, thank you!).

However, if you can I would suggest moving up to 10.2.8, which also included some Safari ungrades (if I remember right). Under 10.3.2 I am not seeing any problems at all.