Unconventional Drop Down Menus

Re: Unconventional Drop Down Menus

Rocky Slaughter — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:08:59 -500

Very mid-90s.

Walter

It’s kind of odd designing a website for someone who you completely disagree with. I try to maintain professional composure.

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Re: Unconventional Drop Down Menus

waltd — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:12:45 -500

Remember the UPS commercial? “…we could have a spinning logo or a flaming logo!”

Walter

On Jul 3, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Helveticus wrote:

this whole mid 90’s retro thing is apparently the next big thing in web design… I can see spinning gif’s making a comeback

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Re: Unconventional Drop Down Menus

Helveticus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:55:14 -500

> . Very mid-90s.

Walter

this whole mid 90’s retro thing is apparently the next big thing in web design… I can see spinning gif’s making a comeback

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Re: Unconventional Drop Down Menus

waltd — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:11:43 -500

If you go to the old Site Map action, there is a color palette for it called Redmond or something similar. That has the plus sign things and everything. Very mid-90s.

Walter

On Jul 2, 2008, at 7:09 PM, chuckamuck wrote:

Just off the top of my head I would suggest looking at combining css menus with the Transition FX. Use transition effect for + sign action and css menus for the rest.

Will take a lot of fiddling, and it may not work to very deep levels, but should be doable.

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Re: Unconventional Drop Down Menus

chuckamuck — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:10:00 -500

Just off the top of my head I would suggest looking at combining css menus with the Transition FX. Use transition effect for + sign action and css menus for the rest.

Will take a lot of fiddling, and it may not work to very deep levels, but should be doable.

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Re: Unconventional Drop Down Menus

DeltaDave — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:07:11 -500

Hi Rocky

You can use Scriptaculous for this

softpress.com/products/scriptaculous.php

Click to Slide Me Down

David

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Unconventional Drop Down Menus

Rocky Slaughter — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:45:18 -500

I’ve just been hired to do a website for a guy who is definitely a PCer.

He wants me to create similar dropdown menus on his site as you would expect to see in Microsoft Excel if cells are consolidated.

This will be tough for me to explain but I will do my best.

Basically….

There will be a “+” on the left of each word in the drop down menu.

You can expand each word so that all of the categories can be expanded at once, or you could do them one at a time.

If the “+” is clicked, it will expand the subcategories under the main category. The “+” has to be clicked again in order for the subcategories to disappear.

For a visual….

If you had

+Media

————- Press Coverage

————- Downloads

—————News

+Schedule

——————Calendar

——————Upcoming events

+Statistics

+Locations

Anyone who can prescribe an action or method that would allow this would get infinite kudos.

Thanks.

Some of the menus above are expanded, some are not. All of them link to another page.

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