Menu cutting off

Hello,

I am using one of your menus in my website and the right hand side of the menu seems to be getting cut off when the mouse is not hovering over it. When the mouse is hovering over the menu it is fine so I cannot work out why this is happening.

Is this something that can be fixed?

All the best,

Zack Moir

http://www.zackmoir.com


Answer:


Hi,
the flash object has a width="970", but you have parameter
stretch_width_to = '1000px'

The menu cannot be stretched to the 1000px if you have the width="970".

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

No link to Main Nav buttons

If i Don't want to link anything to the main Buttons, Button 1, Button 2 etc. What do i do? If i take away the 'a Href-link' then the button goes away. I just want there to be a header with no link and the buttons to be on the sub menus.



Answer:


Hi,
don't remove the href-link.

Use href="#" or href="NA"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Does your products run with PHP?

Our entire website / intranet is based on PHP langunage. Does your product work with this language?


Answer:


Of course, no problem with PHP.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Why it doesn't work without the "www" alias

hello.
when i go here: http://www.onesixmotorsports.com/osc/ the drop down links work. BUT when i go here (without the 'www' alias): http://onesixmotorsports.com/osc/ the drop down links (all links) are broken. i cannot figure out why. please help.

thanks, paul L.



Answer:



Hi,
because you are using an absolute path with "www" to load the menu SWF file:

<param name="movie"
value="https://www.onesixmotorsports.com/flash/adobe_style.swf" />

I recommend to use a relative path, like this:


<param name="movie" value="flash/adobe_style.swf" />


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Centering menus

I cant get the menu to center. I tried the old school html <center> tag. I also tried the margin-left: auto, margin-right: auto, I even put the whole deal in a table and tried it. what do you recommend?
thnx
Dave


Answer:


Hi Dave,

I recommend to put the DIV id="f-source-menu" in another DIV or table cell with
align="center"

<div align="center">
<div id="f-source-menu">
  .....
</div>
</div>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Menu Fonts Firefox Mac vs PC

Hi Dmitry,
I'm using the Adobe Style menu. In Firefox on a MAC, the font is displaying
as Times New Roman instead of the correct font of Verdana which
is defined in the Flash settings. In Firefox on a PC it is fine. They are
both Firefox version 2.0.0.16. I tried adding a font tag directly to the
menu items (like I do with bolding in my example) but that didn't work. Any
ideas?

Thanks!

Pam Mikula
Mikula Web Solutions, Inc.


Answer:


Hi Pam,

I recommend to replace _mainFont:'verdana', with _mainFont:'Verdana',

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com


>>>

That worked! How ridiculous that MACs are case-sensitive!
Thanks for your help.
-Pam

Pam Mikula
Mikula Web Solutions, Inc.

NavGuide for Dreamweaver MX 2004

Hi

I have been evaluating your menu products and like what I see.  Unfortunately I am running Dreamweaver MX2004 and find I am unable to install NavGuide.  Dreamweaver's Extension Manager (version 1.6.062) refuses to install it, saying that Dreaweaver 8 or later is required.  Clearly this makes menu configuration a much more laborious task.

I wonder do you have any workaround to this problem?

Regards
Geoff Johnson



Answer:



Hi Geoff,
yes, only Dreaweaver 8 and later versions have nesseccary functions for the NavGuide.

But you can edit the DIV id="menu" directly, without a help of the NavGuide.
It's very easy.
Each line of a code represent a button.
Copy and paste a single line of code to add a new button; delete one line to remove a button.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Which code to paste.

Hi! 
I got one of your menus quite some time ago. I created it about a year ago, but haven't had time to finish it for my website--I now have time.  It's not perfect, but I want to copy and paste the code into my real page, but can't tell which code to copy and paste and also where to paste it.  Please help.


Answer:



Hi,
I recommend to insert the menu on a blank page.
You will see which code was added.

Paste all the menu code in one place in this order:

- script "ActiveContent..."
- DIV id="menu"
- DIV id="f-source-menu"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

How can I extend the menu width by a lot?

Hi,
I actually have two questions.

1. Do you still have your support blog up and how do I get to it (that was very helpful)?

2 (main question). How do I make the width of the flash menus bigger, especially so that I could extend horizontal menus across the screen (like your webpage where the navigation is centered but splits the screen)? Is there a way to do this? Thanks


Answer:


Hi,
1. Yes, there is a link in the site footer:
http://f-source-com.blogspot.com/

2. Use 100% width menus:
  - Live Style Horizontal Menu
  - Mac Style Menu for Dreamweaver
  - Ruby Red Menu for Dreamweaver
  - EDGE Style Dynamic Menu for Dreamweaver

For other horizontal menus I recommend to use CSS images to extend a menu
across the screen:

<div style="width:100%; background:url(images/bg.png) repeat-x" align="center">
<div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
     .......
     .......
 </div>
</div>

Example: 100% width using image example

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Using Navigation Guide

Hi,

I have recently purchased the vista drop down menu. When I try to initiate the Navigation Guide by pressing ctrl shift f nothing happens. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong and what to look out for?

Thanks


Answer:


Hi,
he menu package includes a file "NavGuide.mxp".
Make sure you've installed it in the Extension Manager.

If it's not, install it, restart Dreamweaver and try again Crtl+Shift+F.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Bold Font in EDGE menu

Hi,

Is there a way to make the Font bold on the EDGE menu?

Thanks


Answer:


Hi,
yes, use encoded <b> tags - &lt;b&gt;

<b>Button1</b> ==> &lt;b&gt; Button1 &lt:/b&gt;

< div><a href='http://...'>&lt;b&gt;Button&lt;/b&gt;</a>< /div>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Drop Down Menue Height

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am use the popup menue in html. but my drop down menue is too much long lenth like 1 to 50 links in one drop down menue. ,y screen is  very small and dropdown menue  lenth big so i want hide up menue and display down menues and when i am click up arow hide down menue and display up menue list. please give me the suggestion for that.

thanks,
VB


Answer:


Hi VB,
I recommend to change the structure of submenus. Add a third level
with sub-submenus (maybe with sub-sub-submenus).
Try free version of the Adobe Style Menu: http://f-source.com/buy/adobeMenu/

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

You can extend the maximum height for submenus:
- open your copy of the script "ActiveContentDropDown.js" or
"ActiveContentDropDownWide.js"
(your page should have a link to the script in the head) (the JS file
is included in a menu package)
- find the string "areah=450"
- set desired value, for example "areah=900"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

WC3 standards valid code

Hi Dmitry,
Long time no communicate!  I hope things are going very well for you.

We are currently in the process of optimizing our website and trying to make it valid to WC3 (The World Wide Web Consortium - http://www.w3.org/) standards.
Not that this is that very important but it is something that we want to try and achieve anyway.

So far we are not having too many problems in making our pages valid to this standard with the exception of the Business Menu.  This link should take you to a page that will show you the results we are getting when a page has been analyzed using the WC3 Validation Tool:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parexcellencemag.com%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&verbose=1
Is there anything we can do about this to get it to validate? 
Thanks.


Todd Edwards
President/CEO
Big Apple Media Developers Limited
Suite 37 The Zenith Building
26 Colton Street
Leicester LE1 1QA
England

http://www.parexcellencemag.com


Answer:


Hi Todd,
no problem.
The menu can work with "class" instead of "id".

Just replace <div id='submenu'>  with <div class='submenu'>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Pre-purchase question, background, conversion

Dear F-Source,

I have downloaded your trial version of the Adobe Stlye Menu software, and am considering purchasing it.  I have been searching for a pop-up menu that works on all platforms (the Spry menu on my Dreamweaver software does not position its menus correctly on Explorer, because of Explorer's non-CSS compliance; your Flash menu does seem to work on Explorer).  I am wondering about 2 or 3 things before I make the purchase:

1.  Would I be able to put my own background image, with a rollover image as well, into the menu entries instead of having background colors?

2.  If so, do you have a page with a listing (or can you direct me to such a listing) of the various parameters used or available to be used in the 'FlashVars' code (including their meanings)?

3.  Whenever I open my Dreamweaver file with this menu trial version, I get a message that certain tags may not render properly in the most recent versions of Explorer.  It asks whether I want to convert them to browser-safe scripts.  If I do this, though, the menu no longer renders correctly in other browsers (the menu will be chopped off below the first menu entry).  Without doing this conversion, it renders properly in Explorer 6, but I haven't had an opportunity to check Explorer 7 yet (I plan to do this today).

Do you believe this conversion to be needed for any versions of Explorer, or should I disallow it altogether?

Thank you for your assistance.  I look forward to the possibility of doing business with F-Source to fill this (and any other) need on my websites.

Sincerely,
Mark Kupke



Answer:


Hi Mark,

1. Adobe Style Menu (for example) can be fully transparent with your
own background image, but with our rollover effect.

2. http://f-source.com/buy/adobeMenu/#menu_config

3. Disable the active content converter: http://f-source.com/before_insert/
Our menus have a built-in solution of the problem.

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Extra space at the top of menu

Hello - I seem to have extra space at the top of my menubar and haven't been able to find where/what I should change to get rid of it.  Can you check it out and tell me how to fix it?

http://jsm.mltgroup.com/default.htm

Many thanks -
Sarah


Answer:


Hi Sarah,
remove the &nbsp; symbol in the menu table cell,
before the DIV id="menu"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com