I have 2 clients who are asking for horizontal drop down menus in center
justified, fixed width sites. I would like to do them with CSS. I can not
find a pure CSS menu that seems to fit the bill, IE issues mostly. I need
drop down and sub menu.

I am not apposed to using java like the in the suckerfish menu. The problem
I an finding with the suckerfish menus is that everything has to be spaced
equally. The main nav and the drop down boxes. I may have the main link
"home" next to "consultation services" and it doesn't look good when they
are both at 150px in width. I want to use padding left and right to have the
spacing between links be the same regardless of number of characters.
padding: 5px 10px;

I also want to control the width of the individual drop down menus. The only
option I am finding is software like http://www.opencube.com/ $$$ A lot of
these software DHTML menus I have seen use a large java file and an image
for the main nav. I would rather have a list and text instead of images for
seo.

Any help appreciated, link examples, suckerfish experience, software
suggestions.

J

Joe Joe wrote:

I'm pretty sure that it doesn't have to be.

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Joe Joe wrote:
http://koivi.com/css-menus/

http://irontrail.org/

See above examples and play with the style sheet, you can likely get
what you want, even if it in involves adding additional class attributes
to some of the sub-menu ul tags.

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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:43:55 -0500, Joe Joe wrote:

We've been using AllTheWebMenus

http://www.likno.com/

for several years and have been pretty happy with it. Its a windows UI
that you use to design the menu, and then you integrate the generated
menu into your site. The new version also has a feature where it will
generate a site map.

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George Sexton wrote:

How can you be happy with a navigation that doesn't work at all when
JavaScript is disabled? Hoe do search engines spider your sites?
(or was the one example I looked at the one exception and do all the
other menus actually contain working href links?)

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George Sexton wrote:
It's all javascript-generated, and doesn't have the anchor text or allow
spiders to crawl the site. Even if you use a site map, to the spiders if
the pages don't link to each other it may look like nothing more than a
doorway page.

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Justin Koivisto wrote:
If that generated sitemap actually holds real links, not JavaScript
ones...

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Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
Justin Koivisto <justin@koivi.com> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

Surely the point of a doorway page is to have *lots* of links to documents
within the site?

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Confused? think so, not too sure.

William Tasso wrote:
Right, but:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html

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Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:


Google seems to be able to follow some links in JavaScript. Still haven't
tested this.

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