Emulation

Poster: Matthias
Dated: Sunday August 31 2003 - 1:57:09 BST

I am making a website for my high school and I started to hardcode a nav system with JavaScript and DIV tags, but found out that it was too big of a navigation system to hardcode, then I found Milonic. I've already got the rest of the site pretty much planned out, so I basically just need to replace the menu system that I've got now with the Milonic menu system.

Here is the site I'm trying to emulate:http://www.mattfaus.com/testing/nav/newtry.htm

Setup:
The nav system is the block that when you rollover it turns darker red. It is positioned correctly for it to look like it fades on the top, but the fade is a seperate 1px image tiled on the x-axis, I was kinda proud of the slide-in thing I came up with in JavaScript, but the effects don't really matter, I'm kind of in a hurry to get this site ready

Questions:
-Can I change the border-bottom-width to 1 and all the rest to 0 with Milonic's functionality, or am I going to have to do that elsewhere (i.e. within the page)

That's all for now, any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Poster: Matthias
Dated: Sunday August 31 2003 - 3:54:34 BST

Ok, now I've got it going pretty good, but I need to know how to make the box of the top level navigation 760px wide w/o using itemwidth on each item.

I guess I could use itemwidth on each item, but it would be a lot faster and be a lot more exact if I could just change the whole box to 760px wide.

...while waiting for some answers starts the labourious task of linking all these damn links to their respective pages...

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Sunday August 31 2003 - 4:22:02 BST

Sorry, I can't answer your question, since I don't even know what you're asking , but I went to the site to see it and I get a javascript error. When I try to mouseover it gives me

line: whatever number, it changes
character: again it changes
error: underfined is undefined or 'mover' is undefined

I'm using IE 5.0. Just thought I'd let you know.

Ruth

Poster: fredlongworthhighschool
Dated: Monday September 1 2003 - 10:20:14 BST

When I go there and move quickly over the buttons I get half of the menus sticking on the page.

I personally wouldn't go for this fancy animation.

I run a high school web site too. The menu system is great for all the subject areas you have to feature.

Poster: Matthias
Dated: Tuesday September 2 2003 - 3:57:55 BST

Ok, cool. I worked it out now pretty good. I'll give you guys a link when I get it published (probably sometime this week) and you can take a look.

Poster: Maz
Dated: Tuesday September 2 2003 - 4:13:48 BST

menuwidth=
&
overallwidth=

either of those might help, although I'm not sure they work yet.

Regards
maz

Poster: Hergio
Dated: Tuesday September 2 2003 - 15:08:03 BST

You have 9 items...780 / 9 = ~86. So set each item to 86 px wide, and its quick and easy. If you want the menus small where the words are smaller, then just shave some pxs off of one menu and add them to another.
For each item in the mainmenu just specify itemwidth=86 pixels....
aI("text=item1;showmenu=menu1;itemwidth=86;");
aI("text=item2;showmenu=menu2;itemwidth=86;");
aI("text=item3;showmenu=menu3;itemwidth=86;");
......
Also the menu open effects aren't nice...they stick in places and are not fun if I want to get to something fast that I use every day. Use the relatively standard overfilters that the examples have and its much nicer.

Poster: John
Dated: Tuesday September 2 2003 - 18:19:06 BST

Definitely have to agree with the rest of the gang on the animation thing. Way too much junk (sorry). You're trying to put across your site information, NOT how "fancy" you can make things. There are menus coming from all over the place, many of them sticking on, and some even in odd spots on the page. Clean it up so you don't drive your visitors away (just my opinion, and I write pages for a living).

Poster: Matthias
Dated: Thursday September 4 2003 - 4:30:00 BST

LOL, yes I know the menu system on that page sucks, that's why I decided to go with Milonic. The menu system under the mattfaus.com domain, is something I coded from scratch with JavaScript. It really sucks as a menu system, but I did learn a lot about JavaScript.

Here is the Creekview High School website, complete with Milonic menu system and everything.

http://www.cfbisd.edu/schools/crk/index.htm

I got the "cells" tweaked to the right size, but one thing I need to know how to do is lock the text size, with pixels or something. Right now it will really screw up the site if the user's browers is using the wrong text size such as "Largest". If you don't know what I'm talking about go to View->Text Size, in IE and try choosing different text sizes.

Let me know what you think, I definitely want constructive criticism on this site and you guys were really too nice on the mattfaus.com-stored site. Geez, it sucked. It's ok to tell me that.[/url]

Poster: Hergio
Dated: Thursday September 4 2003 - 13:33:21 BST

Matt, looks good, much better now. Its alot easier to navigate the site and see whats availble to the user.

To try and lock in the font sizes, in your style for fontsize specify something like fontsize="10px"; this will make the text a certain pixel size...and lock it there. I have my entire intranet locked in and when I change my text size in the browser, I see no changes. Just the way I want it!

Took a look at your home site. Pretty interesting, you got some good stuff going. Seem like ya got a good head on your shoulders. You code any of that javascript menu stuff yourself? So your a LAN party and quakecon fan too huh? My little brother is too (hes 16). I never did that stuff, although I play my games here and there, I never really got into that but my brother tells me about them all the time. I was more of a designer/programmer type. Ahh well...

Poster: Matthias
Dated: Friday September 5 2003 - 4:26:13 BST

Yeah, the fontsize thing worked, and I suspected that that would be the solution, it was previously set at 75%.

Thanks for the compliment on the website.

I did code the old javascript menu system.

Yeah, quakecon and LAN parties are loads of fun, but I too don't play too many games. I spend too much time in my text and pixel editors.