I am wondering how difficult it would be to do this with RSD. I have the whole Responsive Design Suite.

https://scsdirectinc.com/about

In HTML I could create buttons and multiple layers of the same size, and on hover of the button change the order of the layers, bringing the content of the desired layer forward and visible. I remember doing something similar to this using Frontpage without a lot of heavy coding. It took care of a majority of coding.
On mobile devices it would allow users to see a lot of quickly viewable images and short sections of quickly digestible text with a minimum of effort and scrolling on their part, and allow you to reuse the same limited screen space.
Now I have the users click the button and go to a new page of content. This is turnoff to the users, people want instant gratification and speed today. I realize how complicated this is, even this site designer did it only on desktop, not on mobile devices.
How difficult would it be with RSD? Frontpage did a lot of the coding for me. Is there an easier way to do this with the CSS in RSD?

Thanks,

Bob

This can be very easy to do with RSD. I would use Menu Builder for your navigation systems.

I guess I should correct myself. How much experience do you have with RSD? That will determine how easy it will be. But always remember there are a bunch of great people in this forum that will help you with specific issues you may have with the software along the way.

Best thing to do is give it a go! Experiment with the software! You will, like many of us, have that "UH Ha!" moment and everything will just click.

Can RCS be set to make its content appear only on a hover over an element? I am under the impression that the RSC requires screen space to be dedicated to it. In RSD, I don't see anything that allows RSD to call up anything on a hover state except for styling and a background image. My trial ended for Menu Builder, but I did not see any options for the entire menu to be dormant until a hover state was triggered. I didn't flesh it out though because MB crashed on any save or preview.

Keep in mind that the animated popup menu with images, is only applicable to desktop designs, at least until mobiles are pressure sensitive enough for "finger-overs." So, once you get to a tablet or smaller viewport, that menu effect will have to go (as it does in that site). Perhaps you can use the content slider, make several small sliders for the same effect which in that sites case I believe was just to serve different logo with link within categories, and you won't have to rely on the user to mouse over anything.

Thanks Bill for your input. I did not think about the hover issue on a smartphone. Slaps head in a Homer moment. Obviously I'm not a big web user with my smartphone except for email and quick web searches. I still would like to do it for desktops. I looked at using the content slider but it didn't seem to have much of an advantage over just taking them to another page like I am doing now. Is there a existing project included with the slider that does something similar to what I want to do? Other than looping slide shows, I didn't see much use for that package. Is there decent documentation somewhere showing what type of advanced things the Slide maker can do? It would make my clients happy if I could do this.

Steve, you said it could be done. I'm rather lost on how as I just am starting out on basic stuff in RSD. Any hints on how I can get RSD to perform an action like changing the layer order on another element, short of writing a html action to be called from a button push will be appreciated. In Frontpage I could specify a list of multiple actions."on hover". In RSD I see I can select the state Regular, Hover & Active and can change the zindex of the button itself, but how do I get the button hover state to affect another element? Is that something that menu builder can do, or is it within RSD itself? I'm rather lost on how RSD would do it without an action list function built in for the button.

I haven't used the RCS. It is a good thing, it makes websites "active," can serve images responsively to the best of current standards (this srcset is not officially supported everywhere yet). I think its useful, from what I understand of it, it won't serve for those pop-up animations, or pop-up windows. All of them basically rely on javascript/jquery. So - you need to write your own code, or integrate some cookie-cutter code into an html element, and link to the library source for the javascript/jquery. I suspect Steve did not see the mouse-hover effect where new menu's were being served.

I think it may be possible to make such a hover menu, but I just don't know how to do it, and I think it might require Menu Builder for it. But - MB just refuses to work for me.

Mega Drop-Down:
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how- … -net-15129
Just Google it to find more examples/how-tos

Another option, an accordian with tabs:
http://www.sitepoint.com/10-jquery-tabs-accordion/

In the RCS forum, under the thread "Need Some Help Please", the original poster is discussing his slider speed, but - his main page as animated menus with transitions. They look good, and either has no script or very little. See if you can message him, I can't post in that forum.

That looks very similar to this:
http://avirtum.com/preview/?item=flexmenu
(lots of nice options)

I asked what script he used.