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Showcase of diverse white menu styles

Posted on February 18, 2011 by evazhou

White menu refers to drop down menu which adopts white as the main color to navigate your website. As we known, white is the feasible color to match with all kinds of color, it can create wonderful visual matchable effect with other colors. Similarly, white menus are also wild navigation menu to decorate most websites of different colors. Besides color, white menus can be built in horizontal level, vertical level, tab menu, round-corner menu and multi-column. Next, let’s appreciate changable menu styles:

White menu – horizontal menu with black website

White menu – round corner menu with blue website

White menu – vertical menu with green website

White menu – tab menu with yellow website

White menu – multi-column menu with purple website

How to change navigation menu to Windows Vista menu?

Posted on February 17, 2011 by evazhou

Windows Vista menu is attractive and stylish navigation menu, which not only possesses the same functions with web menu to navigate the website, but also has the remarkable appearance like vista style to beautify your website design. The major differences between general navigation menu and Windows Vista menu is background setting. In Windows Vista menu, the background is usually set as silver and transparent, as if it glitters on the webpage.

If you wanna change the existing web menu to Window vista menu, there are two methods available to make it come true. Supposed that your DHTML menu as below, we can make it change into Windows Vista menu by applying preset style or setting the background image from image library with the help of Sothink DHTML Menu.

Change navigation menu to Windows Vista menu

Method 1: Applying preset style to DHTML menu:

Select all the top menu items in menu panel.
Check “Menu Item > Style” in tasks panel; and double click the vista style to apply this style to web menu in bottom property window.
Modify the background as “Transparent” for all menu item; set properties for each menu item, popup menu. The new Windows Vista menu is as follows.

Method 2: Setting the background image from image library

Select all the top menu items in menu panel.
Check “Menu Item > Background” in tasks panel; choose the proper background image from image library; set “bg color” as transparent.
Modify the background as “Transparent” for all menu item; set properties for each menu item, popup menu. The new menu is as follows.

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How to Create a Highlight Menu Tree?

Posted on February 16, 2011 by evazhou

Auto highlight node to show where the user is on the web site. Sothink Tree Menu can automatically display the highlighted node linking to the current page in the browsers.

Introduction:

In the above tree menu, you can see that the node “Overview” is highlighted by menu font and bold style. That is because, through the analysis of tree menu, the link URL of node “Overview” is the same with “index.htm” you are visiting.

Steps:

Click Global Settings > Highlight in Tasks panel and check “Auto highlight current node” option.
The highlighted node is the same as the selected node of mouse out state when the highlight function takes efect; the highlighted node is the same as selected node of mouse over state when the mouse moves over highlighted node.

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How to make DHTML tree menus?

Posted on February 16, 2011 by evazhou

What’s DHTML tree menus?

DHTML tree menus are navigation menu used for large scale website. It also known as a links bar or link bar, which pulls down its nodes after mouse movement. It contains hypertext links on web page so as to navigate between the pages of a website, and quick link to the target page.

Why choose this DHTML menu maker?

Cross-browser navigation menu works excellently on main-stream browsers on various platforms.
Edit web menu directly in HTML editors as add-on, Dreamweaver, FrontPage included.
Build SE friendly navigation menu by the useful tool.
Publish wizard guides publishing the navigation bar, JavaScript menu to website step by step.
Customizes element for web menu, like font, icon, background, color, border, cursor, effects, alignment, transparency, size, etc.
Offers 50+ free menu templates and image library resources .
Any HTML code can be used within the JavaScript menu item.

DHTML menu templates

Sothink Tree Menu offers excellent menu templates by usage, and one customized type in the template gallery. You can start web menu from template; create a blank menu and apply a template to it later; and create new templates and modify the existing ones.

How to make tree menus ?

Step 1: Create DHTML tree menus from built-in templates

Launch Sothink Tree Menu, “Startup” window opens, you can start menu from built-in templates or new blank. First, click the name from built-in templates to select the menu; and then, preview menu style in preview window of Startup; last, click “OK” to start menu creation.

Step 2: Edit nodes and replace the contents

Add or remove nodes for DHTML tree menus. The added nodes will auto-inherit the node’s properties. Replace the text and set the link for each menu item.

Step 3: Publish menu to website

Menu creation is finished. Click the button “Publish” to publish DHTML menu. After the option is check, you can follow the step to publish your navigation to website. And upload all the resources.

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How to Make SE-friendly JS Menu?

Posted on February 14, 2011 by evazhou

The web designers usually apply “Cool” JS menu to navigate the website. This JS menu has the features of dynamic and interactive, which attracts the more traffic. Although JS menu is a stunning navigation menu, it is not friendly for search engine. How to make JS menu SE friendly to Google spider? Search Engine Friendly Code Maker included in Sothink DHTML Menu will help you to generate special code to make your JS menu crawled quickly by SE spider.

How to use Search Engine Friendly Code Maker?

When you finish JS menu configuration, click “Tools > Search Engine Friendly Coder Maker” or click on the toolbar to open Search Engine Friendly Coder Maker Dialog. The generated codes are listed within the dialog. You can click the button “Copy All” to copy these codes and then paste them into the page through web editor. These codes should be placed behind the menu code within BODY tag.

The codes are like this after they are copied to the web page:

The JS menu codes are marked by green.
The generated codes by search engine friendly code maker are marked by red.

<body>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
stm_bm(["menu0e98",800,"","blank.gif",0,"","",0,0,250,0,1000,1,0,0,"","",0,0,1,2,"default",
"hand",""],this);
stm_bp(“p0″,[0,4,0,0,2,3,0,7,100,"",-2,"",-2,50,0,0,"#999999","#E6EFF9","",3,1,1,"#000000"]);
stm_ai(“p0i0″,[0,"Menu Item 1","","",-1,-1,0,"","_self","","","","",0,0,0,"","",0,0,0,0,1,"#E6EFF9",0,"#FFD602",0,"","",3,3,1,1,
"#E6EFF9","#000000","#000000","#000000","8pt Verdana","8pt Verdana",0,0]);
stm_aix(“p0i1″,”p0i0″,[0,"Menu Item 2"]);
stm_aix(“p0i2″,”p0i0″,[0,"Menu Item 3","","",-1,-1,0,"","_self","","","","",0,0,0,"arrow_r.gif","arrow_r.gif",7,7]);
stm_bpx(“p1″,”p0″,[1,4,0,0,2,3,0,0]);
stm_aix(“p1i0″,”p0i0″,[]);
stm_aix(“p1i1″,”p0i1″,[]);
stm_aix(“p1i2″,”p0i0″,[0,"Menu Item 3"]);
stm_ep();
stm_aix(“p0i3″,”p0i0″,[0,"Menu Item 4"]);
stm_aix(“p0i4″,”p0i0″,[0,"Menu Item 5"]);
stm_ep();
stm_em();
//–>
</script>
<noscript>
<ul>
<li>Unspecified</li>
<li><a title=”/index.htm” href=”/index.htm” target=”_self”> Home</a>|</li>
<li><a title=”/product.htm” href=”/product.htm” target=”_self”> Products </a></li>
<li> Showcase </li>
</ul>
</noscript>
</body>

Now, the remarkable JS menu is shown on your website; and SE friendly menu code is available to make your website indexed and crawled quickly by spider.

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14 Easy to Implement Drop Down Menu Solutions

Posted on February 10, 2011 by evazhou

I believe the navigation of a website should always be simple. However, if a website has many pages and sub pages, the thought of navigation simplicity goes out the window. This is where drop down menus come into play. A good and well executed drop down menu can make navigating a large site easy for the user. While drop downs make site navigation easy, sometimes they can seem difficult to implement, but the solutions listed below are all a breeze to set up, especially since most of them are built on jQuery or MooTools.

Superfish

jQuery SuckerFish Style

Smooth Navigational Menu

Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery

droppy

Simple Drop Down Menu for jQuery

UvumiTools Dropdown Menu

MooTools Drop Down Menu

MenuMatic

Drop-Down Menu with jQuery

Simple CSS vertical menu Digg-like

Drop Down Tabs

JavaScript Dropdown Menu with Multi Levels

jQuery Multi Level CSS Menu #1

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10 Stylish Green Menus for Inspiration

Posted on January 30, 2011 by evazhou

Color scheme is one of the most significant factors in the overall look and appearance of a website. At the beginning of website design, the designers will choose the main color for website; and next, they will decide to choose the color for navigation bar following to website’s color. The various color of navigation menu will give the sense of completely different impression. The matchable web menu will enhance the corporate branding on website.

The website designers usually decide color for web menu based on industry and branding impression. For industry, green menu is applied for agriculture, plant, fruit, etc; for branding impression, green menu symbolizes the energy, vigor and flourishing. At the same time, green menu is widely used for kids, small enterprises and the rising industries, which indicates they will have the wonderful future.

Green menu itself represents the nature, peace, hope and life; so, many website designers would like to use green menu as navigation bar on their website design. Now, let’s share some excellent green menus:

Green Menu
Olive D Menu
Horizontal Menu
Tab Menu
Vertical Green Menu
Dot Menu
Block Menu
Rounded Corner Menu
Grass Tree Menu
Forest Menu

Posted in Latest Samples | Tagged green menu, horizontal menu, navigation menu, tab, tree menu, vertical menu, web menu | Leave a comment

How to make frameset highlight menu?

Posted on January 29, 2011 by evazhou

This is a frameset page including iframe and wonderful DHTML menu. Here displays the iframe content. Click the menu item above to see the picture in the iframe window, and you will find that the item is be activated, which the icon is shining and its background color becomes into blue.

Steps:

Create an iframe page in Dreamweaver.
Select the menu item, add the linked page and Enter the frame name in the target filed in Menu Item > General.
Set the icon for the menu item by type the image’ path in Menu Item Settings > Icon; set the background image in Menu Item > Background; and set the border in Menu Item > Border.
Set the global properties for the whole menu. Check the option “Auto highlight current item”; set text color, Bg colcor, border color, Bg image and icon as the highlighted items style; and check “Clear highlighted item’s link” and “Highlight parent menu item” for the menu in Global > Highlight.

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Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation

Posted on January 28, 2011 by evazhou

There are an extensive amount of roads you can take in web design, specifically in navigation. Here, we will talk about one specific navigation technique, tab-based navigation. If properly carried out, tabbed navigation can be very clean and organized within a web layout.

So what is tabbed navigation? Well, it is essentially a set of buttons most often set horizontally. Tabs generally follow numerous different styling guidelines. First, a tab set usually is attached to or slightly protrudes from a container. Also, notice how the open tab matches the background color of the container, and the other buttons are darker. This is another common styling guideline.

When you look at tabbed navigations, you will also notice many styling trends. First, many tabs will have rounded corners on buttons. This helps to create a clean look. Also helping to make a clean look is the use of separation between buttons. Most designs use space to separate buttons, but a bevel, single line, or background color contrast will also look nicely.

You will also see the use of hover effects, which is a common usability characteristic of the tabbed navigation. Gradients, radial and linear, help to achieve an impressve hover effect that brings dimension to the button that the user is selecting. Actually, you will notice that many tab buttons, selected or not, will use a slight gradient to add depth and demension to the button. This is a very simple detail often used to bring extra styling to many different user interface elements, such as buttons. The most important aspect in the design of tabbed navigation is that the active tab needs to be clear and obvious. This is what separates a tabbed navigation from an ordinary horizontal row of buttons or hyperlinks.

So, with all of that in mind, take a look at these 5 excellent tabbed-navigations shown below. Look for the trends, and follow the link to further inspect the usability of the tabbed navigation and how it looks with the rest of the design.

Veer9
These tabs have beautiful styling. Notice the use of different colors and a drop shadow for separation purposes.

Wire & Twine11
This is some excellent texture use with a clean layout.

Komodo12
A good example of tabs used in a module.

Inkd13
Good styling and usable because of size and separation.

Kinder-Aktuell15
Good gradient use and separation.

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Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions

Posted on January 28, 2011 by evazhou

Navigation menus have to be intuitive, precise and easy-to-use. One simple, basic principle, which is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for your projects. In fact, navigation menu is probably the most important element in web design: after all, it is being used more often than any other element on a given page. Therefore it’s important to make sure that your visitors will find they way around the site structure – however complex the latter might be.

So how do designers cope with a challenging task to create an attractive and usable menu? Which results can be achieved? OK, that’s a tough one. Let’s take a look around.

Below you’ll find 8 beautiful and user-friendly Navigation Menus and solutions.

BREAKER DESIGN

folietto

Pulmad, peod, lillesalong… – Annilill Peoteenindus

coda.coza

EGOLOUNGE *Büro für digitales Design

Convan Design – Howdy

far from fearless

Erika Greco – Blog

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