Posts Tagged ‘drop down menu’

In this article I am going to share some interesting uses of JavaScript that would be very much acceptable and useful to the web designers. These examples are not only Uses of JavaScript but HTML and CSS also. So I hope my viewers will gracefully enjoy this article.

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

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 Sliding JavaScript Menu Highlight

Fisheye JavaScript Menu

MenuMatic

Simple Drop-Down Menu

Eyecatchy javasript navigation menu

JavaScript sliding menu

Dropdown menus and menu bars have been heavily used since the early days of graphical user interfaces. Their use has become ubiquitous, and even expected, in desktop applications, and the web has quickly followed suit. There are lots of dropdown menus already out there. Here you’ll find 5 sexy jQuery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well.

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jQuery framework has been a hot topic these few years in web design and development. New tutorials, new techniques and cool effects are being released by developers everyday.As a jQuery lover, I always find myself trying to invent something really cool, useful and able to integrate into design easily. This time, I’ve chosen 5 very useful and helpful navigation menu samples to share with you.

In order to create a DHTML Menu with a transparent background, there are three places where the background must be set to transparent:

1) Select (highlight) <Top-level Menu> in the menu tree, go to Popup Menu – Background, and check Transparent.

2) Select (highlight) all menu items (Edit > Select > All Items), go to Menu Item – Background, and check Transparent for both Mouse out and Mouse over.

3) With all menu items still selected, go to Popup Menu – Background, and check Transparent.

Here is a sample menu with a transparent background:

Hello again, it’s time for comprehensive programming article. Here you’ll find 38 mainly jquery based drop-down or just multi level menu. My favorite here is the first pick – Outside the box with very unique navigation menu. It’s always good to have such reference articles in your bookmarks and when you have to create some really big website with a lot of content and menu sections – just return here. Shorten your developing process with already premade menus.

Article from 1stwebdesigner.com

What is one of the aspects of a website that always needed? It is the navigation menu. Navigation menu is a useful part of the website because it leads the user to different part of the website. Interaction to the website is the main use of the navigation menu. More and more great looking and user-friendly navigation menus are being created that gives  life to the websites.

I’ll be featuring 6 great looking and really unusual navigation menus which JavaScript-based menus.

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The drop down menu has somehow over the years become quite a complicated design element.  This is mostly due to the controversy surrounding its use.  In the opinion of some designers, these menus are simply not worth it.  They’re complicated and clumsy for the user and thus don’t live up to high usability standards.  Because the goal of most designers is to create the best user-friendly experience possible, drop-down menus end up tossed aside in favor of less frustrating options.

However, when done correctly, drop-down menus can be a workable way to organize cluttered layouts and can give a site a decent amount of flexibility and charm.  The key is to follow a few practices well-known for effectiveness and style.

In this post, we’ll explore these drop-down menus best practices and hopefully diminish some of the controversy surrounding this viable design element.

Two-Tiered Frustration

Perhaps the number one source of complaint concerning drop-down menus is the frustration that often results from using two-tiered menus. The main complaint is that they’re extremely difficult to navigate because of the fundamental complexity of the design.

When the user sets out to select an option, he must pinpoint exactly the right area on the menu or risk clicking an unwanted menu item.  After only a few unsuccessful attempts users usually get so frustrated that they simply give up on the site altogether.  The best advice is to avoid the two-tiered structure whenever possible.

Wait to Deactivate

This practice addresses the issue in hover drop-downs where the menu disappears the minute a user removes the arrow from the menu panel.  At that point, the user must start the menu’s search process all over again by hovering over the menu once more.

Designing around this involves coding allowing users to keep the menu open with a hover and to deactivate it with a click on some other part of the screen.  See, for example, the site below.
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The simplest, the best. So does the drop down menu. We find some classic navigation bar currently, which they are so simple to navigate the website, and many web designers would like to apply such that JavaScript menu to their webiste, let’s view them:

Float Menu is a web menu used for site navigation, which locates in a fixed position on the webpage. This float menu enables to scroll along scroll bar, and always keep visible no matter how long your page is and how viewers change the window size. Generally, web menu is done by HTML, CSS and jQuery; but it is a difficulty to create such a float menu for web design newbies or if you face urgent design task while time is limited. Maybe, using DHTML menu builder is an easy way for all of us to build float menu in minutes.

Sothink DHTML Menu is an ultimate drop down menu builder; it can build JavaScript menus with simple steps. Besides float menu, DHTML Menu enables to create lots of functional menus, like scroll menu, highlight menu, multi-column menu, and disable items and separators and non-English menu. Now, let’s create float menu in the program:

View float menu sample, and it stays visible even if you scroll down a web page. They’re animated, so they move up and down as you scroll the browser window up or down.

Steps:

1.    Start DHTML menu from Built-in Template.

2.    Set menu type as Float to create Float menu

  • Check “Global > Menu Type” in Tasks panel, and enter the property panel on the bottom. Input name for this menu and check “Float” option here.
  • Check “Global > General” in Tasks panel, and enter the property panel on the bottom. Input value as coordinate to float menu on web page. Now preview menu, you will see the menu placed in a fixed position.
  • Still in this panel, check two “Auto-scroll” options to make float  menu scroll along scroll bar.

Creating float menu is so easy in DHTML menu builder. To build more functional menus, download Sothink DHTML Menu to make them in minutes.

We collect some creative drop down menus for web navigation. Thanks to web designers, they give us more inspiration to create drop down menus and provides new ideas to design navigation bars. Let’s enjoy them: