Leadership Viewpoint

As your website grows, a long list of links for individual pages can become cumbersome. By the time my website had about 20 pages, I was no longer happy with the way all those buttons looked on each page. One way to address this is via a dropdown navigation menu, like the one I used. To see what I mean by this, go to my home page and run your mouse over the navigation buttons, you’ll see them open up to additional buttons. If you hold the mouse over Programs and then over any of the topics that dropdown, you’ll see additional sub-options dropdown. To create this device, I used a simple DHTML Menu Builder provided for free via the folks at CoffeeCup. Simply enter your URL’s and page names into their little software interface and in no time you’ll have a nice little dropdown menu. There are lots of color choices, as well as an option to make it horizontal rather than vertical too, if that fits your design better.

When I first made this menu, I asked a few questions of the expert moderators of the Webstudio Online Forum. I originally found them by clicking on the ‘Help’ link inside Webstudio. These folks have a ton of experience, and continually offer help and support to users of the software. In fact, one of them didn’t like the way the boxes overlapped in my original dropdown menu, so he went in and edited the code to improve it. He was also kind enough to explain what he had done, and since then I have been able to make minor modifications myself! Use the various ‘Help’ options to add to your website and accomplish your goals.

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