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Menus for web sites

Some designers would never use anything but hypertext links for a menu, whether they are rollover menus, graphic menus, image maps or drop downs. The reason is that search engines do not read javascript or DHTML menus, which is another way of constructing your navigation.

I've opted for text menus. I have been using a dhtml menu for ages, but thought I'd see if search engine rankings improved with text links. I also have:
1. A site map
2. Text links between pages as much as possible.

That way, search engines can read all my pages via my text linked site map.

DHTML menus, however, are so easy to add and delete pages from and that alteration changes the whole menu across your site without having to go to each page to change it. You have to change the site map of course, but that is just one page.

There are two well DHTML known menus you can buy.

 

ALL WEB MENUS

Create DHTML/Javascript menus for your web pages visually, without any programming experience required! A Javascript menu will work alike in browsers supporting DHTML, such as the I.E., Netscape Navigator, Mozilla and Opera browsers, without you having to deal with DHTML incompatibilities across them.

 

A DHTML menu can be vertical or horizontal, it can be movable, stay visible while scrolling, contain static or animated images, borders, colors and much more. There is also a collection of predefined styles in the Style Gallery that can help you build a dynamic menu very fast; just add the text for each menu item and let the Style Gallery take care of its appearance. Finally, a simple step-by-step process makes it easy to compile and link a menu to your web page in just seconds!

Since menus have always been familiar and straight-forward to users, you can really boost your sites' functionality with comprehensive, well-designed menus; AllWebMenus is definitely a great tool to achieve this!

The other is from Xara graphics.

I will now link you to some small sample menus which you can make on line.

Graphic nav bar generator

DHTML menu generator

CSS menu generator

Flash nav bar generator

You can build a menu in CSS, which if in an external CSS stylesheet, can also be changed across your web site quickly.

Menu examples are at CSS vault also.

 

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