Mini Menus Macromedia Dreamweaver Extension

MiniMenus Intarface

The MiniMenus™ system interface inserts and makes edits to an existing menu. When launched for the first time on a page without a MiniMenu you are presented with all of the options from which you make your selections and then insert the menu components. The same interface, when launched on a document containing a MiniMenu, will make edits to the existing menu.

After a menu has been placed on your page you can return to add or remove buttons, add or remove drop menus, change the position of the menu components as well as set the delays on the subs and set a default menu button to display as the current page.

The Interface

The Menu button list

The menu button list appears at the top of the interface and is the indicator of how many buttons are inserted or are to be inserted if a menu does not currently exist.

The menu button list controls

There are 4 control buttons that operate the list options.

Add Button - Rem Button

These buttons will add or remove a button option from the list. These are the controls that determine the quantity of buttons that will be inserted onto the page.

Add Sub- Rem Sub

These buttons will add or remove a buttons drop menu. These are the controls that determine which button will have a drop down menu. Dropdowns may be added or removed at any time before or after installation of the menu.

Pos Top - Pos Left

These fields determine the menus position from the top left of the browser viewport. The number entered is in pixel values.

Menu Type

Determines the menu orientation. Vertical or Horizontal menus are selectable.

Drop HTML

Determines the dropdown HTML. The dropdowns are always absolutely positioned divs however the links within them may be in <p> tags or in table cells.

Drop Type

This option is selectable for the Horizontal Menus only. The drop type for the Horizontal menus can be a standard "Drop Sub", or a horizontal "Tab Sub" style.

Standard

Inserts a standard dropdown menu with the links stacked on top of each other.

Horizontal Bar

Inserts a horizontal style nav bar.

Menu Style

A selection of 6 different styles is available. All of the images and files needed for the selected style will be created into a folder in the sites root and are automatically linked to the page you are working on.

Use Stylesheet

If this option is checked the default styles will be used to style the menus dropdowns. If not there is no styling applied to the drops.

Use Theme Assets

If this option is checked an additional stylesheet will be used. In doing this the style Theme background image and body styles will apply.

Button Delay

This field determines the delay time for the drop subs to close after mousing off of the drop subs.

Sub Delay

This field determines the delay time for the active drop sub button to return to its normal state after mousing off of the drop subs.

Spacing

Determines the spacing between the buttons. A pixel value entered in this field the buttons will be separated by the value entered.

Persistent

If selected the corresponding button number will be set to its over state indicating the current page as this buttons url.