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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.


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 three well DHTML known menus you can buy.

DHTML Menu Maker

I've used this and it really is the best.

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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 IE, Firefox and Opera browsers, without you having to deal with DHTML incompatibilities across them.

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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. These are free.

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