Love the Cascading Popup Menu

1) Rocketjock Group: Guests
IP: 206.127.--.--

Posted:

Our Commpany reciently purchased Ektron CMS-400. Your Cascading Popup Menu was one the menu options included in the purchase. It works great!!!

The bad news is CMS-400 is a piece of garbage. BIG BIG mistake on my bosses part.

The only question I have and haven't been able to get an answer on from Ektron is, how 508 compliant this menu?

Thanks again for a great product.

2) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 202.36.--.--

Posted:

I would like to get a response from Ektron as well, as I don't quite recall them actually licensing the script from me, and the standard license doesn't allow redistribution.

That's not to say I'm 100% sure they're in violation -- they might have sublicensed it from another company somehow -- but if you do get a working contact address, please let me know at /contact/

As for 508 compliance, I would recommend that you switch to the FreeStyle Menu script from this site. It's a new script that has been designed from the ground up with accessibility in mind, and should be a lot more 508 compliant compared to the Cascading Popup Menu script.

Cheers - Angus.

3) Bob Group: Guests
IP: 70.92.--.--

Posted:

Angus,

I have volunteered to help launch the new web site for my daughters swim team and I am running into a logistical nightmare. I am at 50 plus pages and ever time another modification is requested I need to change each page. It is a pain in the Ass. I saw your CSS\Javascripts menus and thought they could work for me but would like you input before I make any changes.

Background Information:
Temporary Site: www.aquajets.us/new/
Current menu: Dreamweavers MX mm_menu
Layout: Horizontal

Which one would you recommend? It looks as your Cascading Popup Menus would allow easy menu changes what if javascript is turned off.

Thanks in advance.

Bob
Minnesota "Uff-da"

4) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 202.36.--.--

Posted:

I don't think this is quite related to the Ektron CMS topic, but it does sound like you need a CMS of some kind :). Either that or just google for "server side includes" -- that's a way of including a common header/footer/menu etc on each of your pages.

If you cannot generate your pages using SSIs or a language like PHP (which allows you to include content automatically) you are probably better off with the Cascading Popup Menu script as it stores its data in an external file. Otherwise I would recommend the FreeStyle Menu script as it can work in modern browsers with JS disabled, and is generally newer and cooler.

- Angus.

5) molendijk Group: Members
Posts: 78 Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Location: The Netherlands (Groningen) IP: 84.86.--.--

Posted:

Bob,

There's a good html to script converter at:

http://webdeveloper.earthweb.com/repository/javascripts/2003/06/195171/jsinc.h tml

Put the html (you want to be on every page) in the converter, save the result as a js-file, say 'include.js', and put the following on every page:

<SCRIPT language=javascript src="include.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>

This way every change you make in 'include.js' will be reproduced on every page.

Is this what you mean?

(I've done this at
http://www.let.rug.nl/~molendyk/
and at
http://www.let.rug.nl/~molendyk/eendracht/

and it works great).

Good luck,

Arie.

Arie.

Love the Cascading Popup Menu

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