- Sothink DHTML Menu
- Sothink Tree Menu
Features
- Cross-browser
- More Attractive User Interface
- Keyboard Navigation
- Full Edit Mode
- Free Add-Ins
- Resource Folder
- Rich Built-in Resource
- Tips of the Day
- Encoding
- Copy and Paste
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Sothink DHTML Menu generates robust cross-browser code compatible with most web browsers. The menu can auto detect the visitors' browser type and load the best script code, so designers do not worry about the browser compatibility any more. The supported browsers include Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, Camino and Safari. The code has been fully tested on Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux and Vista. Click here for more.
More Attractive User Interface
The attractive user interface comes out with new release! The new interface has improved into the fashionable skin, the reasonable layout and handy editing. Flexible panel layout makes sure you can edit the menu and menu item in the favorite way; edit and modify the menu in tree-list panel or preview window; and click the buttons on the toolbar, you can refresh, preview or publish the menu directly. With the brand-new interface, building menu becomes more easy and simple.
Keyboard Navigation function helps users to control the menu both in the program and on the webpage containing the menu. In the program, you can control the menu, choose a certain item and input text conveniently. On the webpage, you can control the menu or switch between multiple menus on the webpage.
Full edit mode is a more visual way to create the menu. While in the Edit Mode, you can directly edit on your menu in the preview window, but not just preview your menu. You can edit the selected menu item(s) by double-clicking in preview window, which includes exactly the same operations in Menu Tree panel.
Sothink DHTML Menu can work with Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web and Golive as add-in. After Sothink DHTML Menu is installed, Sothink Widgets will be added to web authoring tools.
With a few clicks, you can accurately insert a menu to your desired position in design mode. You can also easily edit the menu later.
Fully support Library and Template in Dreamweaver; Shared Borders, Include Page and Dynamic Web Template in FrontPage; and Dynamic Web Template in Expression Web. So you can edit a menu and let web editors update all the relevant pages automatically.
Resource folder helps the users to set the JavaScript and image folder for resource files used in the menu, which makes sure the same menu display exactly within multi-page of different directories, and also you can preview the menu in both local intranet and Internet. After setting these folders, our program will do the rest of the things for you --- copy all menu files to the defined folders, no matter you use the program alone or within Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web or Golive.
Apply images directly from Image Library and edit them freely. These images usually use as icon, arrow, background and separator.
Choose different cursor image to help viewers distinguish between linked items and non-linked ones.
Include styles to menu item(s) from Pre-Designed Styles. These styles offer diverse pre-defined CSS styles, icon and background images can be saved to Styles as well.
Build your menu from Ready-Made Templates. The templates have been reorganized into six categories and one customized type, they are Business, OS, Simple, Art, Clone, Effect and My Templates.
Tips of the Day gives you tips&tricks about using the program, which shows at the start of the program. It helps you to use the program better, get the related information easily and grasp the usage method quickly. View these tips carefully; you will get the unknown skills before.
Encoding can encode menu in the proper language when inputting the characters different from your default system language, and make the menu display correctly in the program and preview page.
Supports Non-English Languages
The program supports not only English but also non-English languages, such as Japanese, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, etc. Even right-to-left languages are supported, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc. In order to make the menu shown the correct non-English language, please set the applied language as the default language on your computer.
When you duplicate menu items from one menu to another menu in different program windows by just Copy and Paste, the properties of menu items can be copied too. And even, you can re-arrange menu's structure in new menu window by this function.
Supports switching to drop-down menu from tree-like menu by importing the authoring file (*.stm) of Sothink Tree Menu. New popup menu has the same properties with tree-like menu, including text content, text type, link, target, status, tip text.
Multi-Column Menu can arrange long pop up menu items in a table in group orderly. Supports the horizontal or vertical popup menu. And the multi-row menu effect can also be reached.
Cross-Frame menu is used for framed web sites. With DHTML Menu, you can input the correct frame names and check the option in the Cross-Frame panel to create common Frames, Nested Frames and Iframes easily.
Click here to learn creating cross-frame menu >>
Highlight menu can automatically display the highlighted menu item linking to the current page in the browser, which indicates where the user is on the web site. You also can show all levels of the menu or customize the number of levels to be shown.
Click here to see an example on web site.
Scrolling menu can scroll long popup menus. Support horizontal and vertical popup menus. Users also can set the precise width and height of popup menu to start scrolling. And the scrolling speed will be accelerated if mouse clicks the scrolling arrow.
Click here to see sample.
Search Engine Friendly Code Maker allows your menu contents to be found and read by search engines, even when JavaScript is forbidden in a browser. It improves your website’s rank and broadens its exposure.
XML Sitemap Maker generates special codes in XML format which helps to optimize your website’s rank in Google. By generating this XML file and submitting your site to Google, you can improve your rank in search results so that more people see your site.
This function helps you to disable certain items and separators. This setting is quite useful for those menus including items or separators that change from time to time. Disabling items and separators, they will only be shown in editing, but not in the webpage.
Creating dynamic database-driven menus has never been easier. Item text, links, tips and other properties can be dynamically generated from a database by using JSP, ASP, PHP, ASP.NET and ColdFusion or other server side code. Just input the variables in the corresponding fields and write some conditions (if...else..., while, for, etc.) in the Conditions panel to generate a menu, instead of manually coding every line of the menu on the page. Those conditions will be saved in the menu configuration file, allowing you to easily modify the menu style.
Publish is the vital step to insert the menu into web page. All the publish options are visible in the interface. Following the tips on the dialog to set the corresponding folder and do some operations, you can insert the menu into web page easily. In comparison with old step-by-step publish wizard, this is clear and brief publishing method.
Work with Flash & Form objects
Sothink DHTML Menu works with windowed elements perfectly, such as Flash, Form, Iframe, etc. You can set the menu to show over the windowed element and also hide the windowed element while displaying the popup menu.
Effect Preview allows users to preview the menu in a browser before it is inserted into a webpage. With Effect Preview, users can view a menu’s effect, speed and overall look during design to make sure it is what they want.
Sothink DHTML Menu includes a Site Navigation Generator that automatically generates a navigation menu by analyzing a page of a website (generally, the index page). The Generator Wizard will scan all links on the page and the files they link to, then generates the menu based on the relationship and structure of these links.
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