Drop Down Menu or Fly over (Easy questoin help...)

[aportelli]

Hi Everyone,

 

I have been searching all night for what I need to accomplish this pretty easy task.

I'm looking at trying to create a simple drop down box off the header to display the following things.

Cat 1=Resources

Sub Cat 1 Resource->Solar

Sub Cat 2 Resource->LED

Sub Cat 3 Resource-> Indoor Garden

 

Cat 2=Support

Sub Cat1.1=Manuals

Sub Cat1.2=Contact us

Sub Cat 1.3=whatever

 

I have concerns after reading some of the posts about using PC creator and EASY menu modules. It seems the easy way to accomplis this is to use a javascript from dynmaic drive. I have read several posts.

 

I'm NOT looking at having a drop down menu to populate the catlog that I have online like th dynomenu does already but just some basic tabs with like a two layer drop down.

 

Concerns:

#1

I want to make sure this will work with SSL on

 

#2

I want to make sure I only go two levels deep

 

#3

I want to make sure that a search engine is going to be able to see what I'm done.

 

#4

I want to make sure if I do use a java scirpt that what I use is view able by people and there browsers aren't going to get hosed.

 

 

I have read several posts online and can't seem to figure out what is best for me. Seems this dynamic drive script but not clear. If someone has a thread they can point me to that would accomplish this be great.

 

Thanks for your help!!!

[spooks]

Perhaps How to create a drop down selection menu http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=342527&hl= will help

 

 

[Guest]

I'm NOT looking at having a drop down menu to populate the catlog that I have online like th dynomenu does already but just some basic tabs with like a two layer drop down.

You could also use CSS. There are plenty of examples out there how to do that.

[aportelli]

Perhaps How to create a drop down selection menu http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=342527&hl= will help

 

THANKS for the posts!!!

 

I have looked at this example before but this seems to generate the drop down box like the manufactures off the home page coming from an array. From the example above.

 

This is a great example but I'm looking for something almost like a CSS sheet similar to what the other person mentioned. I looked at some of the dynamic drive scripts but I just didn't know which one to choose because of the different versions of IE and what would work.

Again basically i'm looking just for like a header bar on the top of each page to nav through the site. The examples I searched for through the forum I couldn't really find a good one to do the setup of what pages needed to be modified on setting up the javascript from dynamic drive?

 

if you have some better verbage I should search for or a link that be great to at least get me started.

 

I'm almost looking for something like this. http://www.4hydroponics.com/

where the top page is like "Other Stuff" for an example to get this on the top of all my pages of the store.

Obvoiusly I'll get the graphic but the CSS menu system they used was from dynamicdrive. I just wanted to know if there was a good example I could go off of to step through because there are so many files to modify? If someone is interested in giving me a had let me know I'd be willing to pay someone to get the framework setup so I could just add to it. I have so much custom stuff on my cart already I'm just really leary about following some of the examples because i find myself spending more time putting modules or buggy code in from others that I have to spent hours debuging because they don't all play well together. My store is growgreenmi.com and has come a long way in a short period.

 

Any words of wisdom would be great!

Take care have a great new year!

 

Thanks so much for your help.

[aportelli]

I built the following.

http://www.growgreenmi.com/ddsmoothtest.html

If someone can give me a hand on how to hook this into my cart that be great!

Thanks!

[jhande]

Hey Anthony,

 

I quess you figured out which way your going with a menu system. Both Dynamenu and CSS are workable for what you want.

 

Anyway...

 

Just impliment the menu in your header.php whether in a table or div structure and your good to go.

 

[aportelli]

Hey Anthony,

 

I quess you figured out which way your going with a menu system. Both Dynamenu and CSS are workable for what you want.

 

Anyway...

 

Just impliment the menu in your header.php whether in a table or div structure and your good to go.

 

 

 

Sweet thanks for the help.

I tried to change the header.php but then forgot I have the STS 4.0 so I hand to hack up all the information in the sts_template directory with the models.

I made the chnages and on my way.

 

So I got it working. !!!

 

 

One more QUICK Question.

If I tried to use the header.php script to make the modification.

Where in that code block does it define the CSS template sheets like the stuff that is in the <head> #$@#$@ADEFAS </head>

Reason I ask is there are other php scripts and just never could figure out how the page is built.

how would if of added

 

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

 

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ddsmoothmenu.css" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ddsmoothmenu-v.css" />

 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="ddsmoothmenu.js">

 

/***********************************************

* Smooth Navigational Menu- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)

* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use

* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code

***********************************************/

 

</script>

 

 

<script type="text/javascript">

 

ddsmoothmenu.init({

mainmenuid: "smoothmenu1", //menu DIV id

orientation: 'h', //Horizontal or vertical menu: Set to "h" or "v"

classname: 'ddsmoothmenu', //class added to menu's outer DIV

//customtheme: ["#1c5a80", "#18374a"],

contentsource: "markup" //"markup" or ["container_id", "path_to_menu_file"]

})

 

 

</script>

 

 

In the head portion? of the page of header.php

 

 

Thanks for all the posts I got farther posting two times then I did for the hours I messed with all the other stuff. Pass the help!

Take cARE!