Hi All,

Please excuse my ignorance here but I'm a VSD newbie, and I have searched the forums but cannot find an answer.

I am building a new website with VSD, my second. The first is at flyingdiscpromotions.com.au

This time I would like to have some drop down menus so I am loking at Flash Menu Builder or the DHTML menu builder tool, trying to decide the best option.

Both talk about placing code on you page but I have been unable to do this. I assume that you use the HTML tool in VSD to do this but can someone please pint me in the direction of a good tutorial on this??

I have built the menu under Menu Builder but I have been unable to successfully place it on the site that has been built in VSD. I tried to do the same with the DHTML tool but no luck. At this stage the site is not 'live' just in test mode on my PC.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Cheers - Brian

Brian,

Did you view the VSD helps at: http://www.coffeecup.com/designer/help/ ? That may give you some guidance.

With the DHTML menu, you can just insert the code directly into VSD using the HTML tool. You will not be able to see the menu but will see the HTML box. This is good for a few pages, but any more than a few, and making changes will be a pain.

Help files for the DHTML menu are found at: http://www.coffeecup.com/free-dhtml/help/

I would suggest you modify the DHTML code and create a single file named something like menu.js. Then you use the VSD HTML tool to add a simple line of code like this:
<span id="themenu"><script type="text/javascript" src="menu.js"></script></span>

You may also need to edit the menu.js file to use the span tags, but that can come later.

To create the menu.js file, copy the DHTML code to a text editor such as notepad, and remove everything above: function Go(){return}
Then remove everything below: function AfterCloseAll(){return}

When you save that in Notepad make sure you save as all files or you will end up with a menu.js.txt file.

Give this a try and let us know what happens. You may need to put a test page on your website to actually see how it works.

Hi ballen,
On another note if you decide on the Flash Menu Builder, you could use the flash tool and all the files for the menu will be added automatically. (The flash tool is used like the html tool by drawing a box)http://emoticons4u.com/crazy/134.gif

Thanks Bruzer and BillR

I've not had the time to investigate and fix DHTML menu builder issue but have had success with Flash Menu builder. But like others I don't like the way it positions sub menus to the left. Hopefully a future upgrade of the program will remedy this. My workaround is to place the flash menu vertical, works better. Once I have a working site I will post for comment.

Once of the reasons I chose Coffee Cup was because of the support that I saw via these forums. Thanks heaps!