Q: Nifty menu bar

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

Hey, I've been playing with my Microsoft Frontpage and Macromedia Flash Pro 8. Anyway for Frontpage, I've been trying to find something on how to make a menu bar just like the one Warboards has... always appear on the top left... that's kinda cool. Yet I can't find anything, both in the Help thing in FP and on Google. Can someone tell or lead me into the direction on to make one? In html obviously.

I was also thinking of having an animated one... reason why I mentioned Flash. But as long as someone gives me the basics I'm fine.

[Jeff]

I'm not familiar with FrontPage or Flash. But usually these menus are done with JavaScript. Search Google for JavaScript Menus and you will find a lot of different kinds.

[AJ]

Yea, you're not going to find that menu in Frontpage.. heh.

[Modred]

Yea, you're not going to find that menu in Frontpage.. heh.

Come on AJ, we all know you really work for Microsoft. How else would Apple pull off corporate espionage? It's not like you have school or anything to get in the way... =p

And you could just look at AJ's code. ;)

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

Alright, I found something. yay me...
But, the program I got made the bar into a html file and I don't know how to merge a html file into a web page. I tried to copy its html code and experimented it in freewebs. It didn't work. Along with the html file it made, it also made a folder with all the bar.gif with jscripts and whatnot, so I'm sure I need to upload them along with the actual bar for it to work. I don't know where or how, this is too complicated. >.<

Sample:

[Modred]

You'll need to upload that folder into the same directory that you put your file that has the menu code. It sounds as though this menu that you've found is pulling the images and code for the menu behavior from the files in that folder, so you need to upload that folder in order for the menu to work properly.

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

Hey, I really didn't mention the menu.jscript and you already know what it is. Sounds like you know this.
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O hey, cool. I got it. I put the menu.js in the folder the program created the .gifs in. I moved it where the index.html is and now it's working. Thanks. Free reps. :)

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

Hope autopost merge is still functioning or just w/e. Anyways- One more thing, I try to put the code in the header of the cwal ii forum (http://operationcwalii.smfforfree.com/index.php), but it's not working there, though it is working in http://www.freewebs.com/cwalii/. It just display "appear" on top of there. hm...

I really can't upload anything in there ;(

[Modred]

In the code you have attached atop your forum, find the script tag that looks as follows:


<script charset="UTF-8" src="menu.js" type="text/javascript">


Now simply change it to the following:


<script charset="UTF-8" src="http://www.freewebs.com/cwalii/menu.js" type="text/javascript">


I believe that should fix it.

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

yup, and it does. Nice job. :cookie: cookie for you. Well, 1 step closer in being a web master for me. ;\