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DHTML menu problems can be consigned to the past using Alien Menus for:
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What can these menus do for you?[Show detailed feature listing] These are drop-down site navigation menus available in numerous themes and suitable for top bar navigation with the menu laid out horizontally across the page. Submenus. The menus have cascading submenus, which can pop up over anything on your page - e.g. frame edges, HTML content, flash movies, etc - but are easily removed again afterwards - just like a submenu for normal computer applications. Click here to find out more about submenus. Drop-down action. These are standard drop-down menus with vertically stacked submenus cascading down from a bar. States and colours. The buttons or menu-items each have three states and you can change the colours of these states. Click here to find out more about states and colours. Fonts and text formatting. The menu supports true-type fonts and you can format text colour, size, weight and alignment. The professional and enterprise versions additionally offer text shadows, italics and underline options. Click here to find out more about fonts and text formatting. Layout and line-wrapping. This menu features automated text layout and line-wrapping. Submenus are sized according to both content and aesthetic criteria. Click here to find out more about layout and line-wrapping. Icons. Dual-state user-defined icons are supported. Click here to find out more about icons. Stylesheet formatting. This menu supports multiple styles - much like cascading stylesheets (CSS), a stylesheet can be created with pre-defined styles. Click here to find out more about stylesheet formatting. Scrolling submenus. Submenu content can be scrolled if its size exceeds certain pre-defined reasonable proportions. Carousel scrolling is used for user-friendliness. Click here to find out more about scrolling submenus. Hyperlinks. Every menu item can have hyperlinks attached. Click here to find out more about hyperlinks. Script triggers. If you like writing your own javascripts, you will be happy to find that this applet can directly trigger your scripts. Click here to find out more about scripts. Separators. Insert specially styled separators wherever you like. Separator appearance is dependent on the menu theme and some have dramatic visual effects to enhance the menu interface. Index capacity. The Enterprise version of this menu is designed to support many thousands of menu items as standard, and to be able to extend this through efficient dynamic interaction with the server to an indefinite (unlimited) number. We will also advise on scalability strategies. If you encounter scalability problems, please contact us for advice, as scalability is one of our speciality areas which makes our products outstanding. Dynamic indices. To accommodate dynamic sites, this menu is able to read dynamic indices drawn from any server-side scripting language. Click here to find out more about dynamic indices. Compressed indices. To accommodate very large indices, this menu is able to read ZIP-compressed indices, which allows an approximately tenfold (900%) increase in index-reading speed. Click here to find out more about compressed indices. Additional index features. This menu version additionally offers runtime index switching, DBCS support for indices, and the ability to read indices from parameters as an alternative to static or dynamic server files. Click here to find out more about additional index features. Programming interface. The enterprise version offers an API for interfacing the menu with your web application. Click here to find out more about the programming interface. Tools. An online visual configurator is available. It can be used to edit the size, appearance and content of your menu. Sound effects. The menu can trigger sounds of your choice. For a menu similar to this but with greater graphical options, such as support for background images, click here. Custom solutions based on this menu are also available.
