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Thread: A DIV/Unordered List Menu

  1. 08-31-2012, 06:52 AM #1
    donato is offline Senior Member
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    Default A DIV/Unordered List Menu

    Hello All,

    I would like to be able to format the menu system similar to how http://www.raymourflanigan.com/ has their menu system. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

    ~D
  2. 08-31-2012, 08:52 AM #2
    webopius is offline Senior Member
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    This is actually pretty straightforward to do and I've just done a similar menu for a UK company using AspDotNetStorefront.

    1. Create an independent 'menu' XML package, initially containing some static HTML menus for testing only. Get this working with your master template to replace any existing menu.
    2. Get the CSS working so that each menu drops down correctly as you hover, has the right z-index and layout across all browsers
    3. Add in dynamic retrieval into your menu XML package to retrieve the menu titles first (categories)
    4. Add in dynamic retrieval for the sub-menus (start with the basic sub-categories)
    5. Finally, add in the category specific graphics, or even top selling products into each menu drop down, all by enhancing the menu XML package.

    Adam
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  3. 09-10-2012, 06:09 AM #3
    donato is offline Senior Member
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    Quote Originally Posted by webopius View Post
    This is actually pretty straightforward to do and I've just done a similar menu for a UK company using AspDotNetStorefront.

    1. Create an independent 'menu' XML package, initially containing some static HTML menus for testing only. Get this working with your master template to replace any existing menu.
    2. Get the CSS working so that each menu drops down correctly as you hover, has the right z-index and layout across all browsers
    3. Add in dynamic retrieval into your menu XML package to retrieve the menu titles first (categories)
    4. Add in dynamic retrieval for the sub-menus (start with the basic sub-categories)
    5. Finally, add in the category specific graphics, or even top selling products into each menu drop down, all by enhancing the menu XML package.

    Adam
    Wow! That sounds pretty straight forward... I will look into that further.

    Thank you!
  4. 09-11-2012, 06:10 AM #4
    donato is offline Senior Member
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    Quote Originally Posted by webopius View Post
    This is actually pretty straightforward to do and I've just done a similar menu for a UK company using AspDotNetStorefront.

    1. Create an independent 'menu' XML package, initially containing some static HTML menus for testing only. Get this working with your master template to replace any existing menu.
    2. Get the CSS working so that each menu drops down correctly as you hover, has the right z-index and layout across all browsers
    3. Add in dynamic retrieval into your menu XML package to retrieve the menu titles first (categories)
    4. Add in dynamic retrieval for the sub-menus (start with the basic sub-categories)
    5. Finally, add in the category specific graphics, or even top selling products into each menu drop down, all by enhancing the menu XML package.

    Adam
    I apologize, but could you show me an example please? I tried yesterday to look at it, and to be honest, I need to learn quite a bit more on this end of things... I would greatly appreciate it.

    ~D