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Has anyone ever did some sort of mod for a horizontal menu/horizontal nav bar that could just about go all the way across the top part of your header and have about three rows? I have about 30 items in my menu and everything is so close together and so small. I also have a site logo, avatar and chat logo that could probably all go on one line just above the menu; I suppose.
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There are various javascript menus out there which allow for 2d layers, which look cleaner than a bar with everything listed. You may want to search for one of those and implement it instead.
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I am looking at this one http://www.stunicholls.com/menu/pro_dropdown_2.html and trying to figure out how to implement it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Like for http://www.jesusjoshua2415.com or http://www.eastoverfd.com ?
I'd love to say it was a simple mod, but the current page structure doesn't allow for easy changes to that area of the page. Also, you may want to take a hard look at what's there in the nav and consider some restructuring. A small set of drop-down lists, under a few well thought out categories would be easier to implement, and may help with overall navigation.
Having said that, I've been moving away from drop-downs on my new projects and the internal site I run at work. There's just too many usability problems with a lot of the easy plug-n-run code floating around out there. But, a lot of that depends on the audience and a variety of other factors.
I'd love to say it was a simple mod, but the current page structure doesn't allow for easy changes to that area of the page. Also, you may want to take a hard look at what's there in the nav and consider some restructuring. A small set of drop-down lists, under a few well thought out categories would be easier to implement, and may help with overall navigation.
Having said that, I've been moving away from drop-downs on my new projects and the internal site I run at work. There's just too many usability problems with a lot of the easy plug-n-run code floating around out there. But, a lot of that depends on the audience and a variety of other factors.
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Originally posted by AnonJrLike the first, AnonJr. What do you mean by the "plug-n-run code" phrase?
Like for http://www.jesusjoshua2415.com or http://www.eastoverfd.com ?
I'd love to say it was a simple mod, but the current page structure doesn't allow for easy changes to that area of the page. Also, you may want to take a hard look at what's there in the nav and consider some restructuring. A small set of drop-down lists, under a few well thought out categories would be easier to implement, and may help with overall navigation.
Having said that, I've been moving away from drop-downs on my new projects and the internal site I run at work. There's just too many usability problems with a lot of the easy plug-n-run code floating around out there. But, a lot of that depends on the audience and a variety of other factors.
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Some of the prefab menu code amount to "just put this code here and it runs" - plug-n-run.
Jesus Joshua's website used to have a more intricate menu system, and a little more to it, but a lot of users had problems with precisely using the mouse to get from the menu to the sub-menu, etc. This is a common problem in most of the menu code I've seen floating around (I'm sure there are others that don't have that problem, just haven't tried them myself).
Depending on how intricate your menus were, that may not be a problem. One level of drop-downs, under some clear categories shouldn't be that bad.
For both sites, I used the Site Integration MOD to set up the header and sidebars, and some careful moving and tinkering with tables etc. to get the forum nav to be a site-wide nav. One of these days I'd love to try and make it simpler to make those sorts of changes.
Jesus Joshua's website used to have a more intricate menu system, and a little more to it, but a lot of users had problems with precisely using the mouse to get from the menu to the sub-menu, etc. This is a common problem in most of the menu code I've seen floating around (I'm sure there are others that don't have that problem, just haven't tried them myself).
Depending on how intricate your menus were, that may not be a problem. One level of drop-downs, under some clear categories shouldn't be that bad.
For both sites, I used the Site Integration MOD to set up the header and sidebars, and some careful moving and tinkering with tables etc. to get the forum nav to be a site-wide nav. One of these days I'd love to try and make it simpler to make those sorts of changes.
