Web menu

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Can anyone suggest a fast loading web menu that I can use?

I need the menu to show up across the top and going down the left side of the browser.

I want to stay away from Domino navigator because it is just not as fast as some of the menus that you see on the web today.

I would need something that meets the following requirements:

  1. Built in Domino using Javascript and HTML

  2. Fast loading.

  3. Easy to implement. I know this is relative. Working example would be great to follow.

  4. Really would be nice if a non-developer could maintain the menu. This one is a nice to have, but does not have to be.

  5. The menu must be able to step down to multiple levels. Some of the submenu items go 1 to 3 levels deep.

  6. I do not want graphics as hotspots.

Any suggestions and or examples would be greatly appreciated.

Erskine

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Subject: Web menu

I used this as a sample:

http://www.simplythebest.net/info/dhtmscript52.html

You can check out their other samples, too.

I was able to customize quite a bit, once I figured out where. I saved it as a JS file (there’s 2 of them actually) and saved them on the domino server under the domino\html directory, so non-domino users could modify them. To reference them from the pages/forms, add a “/” to the src=

(i.e. in their code it says src=“coolmenus4.js”, but I had to change it to src=“/coolmenus4.js”)

Finally, make sure that the mapping in the Directory does map html to whatever directory you put the js files into on the server.

This does not use graphics, but it does “float” with the page and this may be annoying (esp when printing pages). There may be a way to make it static, but we didn’t do that.

Good luck.

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Subject: RE: Web menu

Anastasia,

Thanks for the site. I was able to find 2 menus that my client liked. Lot of good examples on this site.

Erskine

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Subject: RE: Web menu

Hi there,

would it be possible for you to email me a database template with the menus working?

Thanks

Adam