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| message from herbmama on 16 Jul 2004 |
Greetings, I am building my own website with dreamweaver 4, although I hired
someone to put up the nuts and bolts. Now I cannot access my drop down menu to
make changes and additions. Please go to my website to see what I am refering
to at www.earthmamagoods.com. I am refering to the left side menu that has
rollovers and a pop-up drop-down menu that pops up during a mouse over from
which you select the internal link.
Once I am in dreamweaver, I select the menu button and go to the behaviors
window. I double click on the option that says "Custom
Script:MM_showMenu(window..MM_menu.......)" but nothing happens! The behavior
is selected in purple, I have the option to change the action (on mouse over,
etc), but cannot get to the window where I can manipulate the drop down menu
options.
When my web designer showed me how to manipulate the drop down menu on her
computer, she followed this order and a window would pop up that would allow
her to change the drop down menu, links, etc. On my computer, I cannot access
this option. Webdesigner is of no help at this point. Maybe she is using a
different version of DW? Any idea on how to do this in DW4? Please help! Thanks!
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| wtron replied to herbmama on 16 Jul 2004 |
Although I am no expert, the menus are easy to fix if you have Dreamweaver
MX2004. You highlight the image on your layout, go to behaviors, then choose
"show pop up menu" and then you can edit. I had DM 4 a while ago and don't
recall an easy option to fix the menu copy.
good luck
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| Murray *TMM* replied to wtron on 16 Jul 2004 |
Get rid of the menu. Build it in a way that it's accessible to both DMX and
DW4. That's the PVII menus.
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| John Gaver replied to Murray *TMM* on 16 Jul 2004 |
BOTH. DW4 is antique and lacking in more capabilities that you will soon run
across, if you spend much time with it. Even if you do upgrade, check out
these two extensions (these are the free ones).
My favorite:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
Also see:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/snapmenus/index.htm
They also sell some more powerful menu extensions, but I have not found a
need for them. OTOH, I am quite proficient at hand coding, so the only thing
they would give me would be a little automation, that I currently do with
snippets. If you need more power and are intimidated by hand coding, then
the P7 commercial extensions may be for you. But, try out the two above,
first.
John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)
Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.
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| Gary White replied to Murray *TMM* on 16 Jul 2004 |
Go to http://projectseven.com. There is a menu on the left side of the page.
From the menu item "Tutorials and Articles" there is a sub-menu. In that
sub-menu, there is a "Navigation" category that lists three different
tutorials that show three slightly different techniques.
Gary
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| jojo replied to Murray *TMM* on 16 Jul 2004 |
Like Murray says, the P7 menus are far superior. Your first post was 1
and a quarter hours ago. You could have rebuilt that menu twice with the
P7 system.
Give it a go and save your sanity :)
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| John Gaver replied to jojo on 16 Jul 2004 |
I'll ad to that cacophony. P7 is the way to go. I personally like their snap
menu. It's free and it's solid. It can also be expanded to multilevel,
should you be overcome with a sudden masochistic urge and have some time to
do a little manual tweaking of the CSS.
John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)
Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.
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| Al Sparber- PVII replied to herbmama on 16 Jul 2004 |
I'm afraid you are stuck. The "behaviors" your developer used are only
available on Dreamweaver MX or higher - not on Dreamweaver 4.
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| Murray *TMM* replied to Al Sparber- PVII on 16 Jul 2004 |
And, even if you could edit them, you wouldn't particularly like the
results. Those menus are pretty bad for lots of reasons -
http://apptools.com/rants/jsmenu.php
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