flash menu builder questions

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is there a way to get them menu to go

main menu
------sub menu
-----------sub menu
----------------sub menu
---------------------sub menu

or maybe

main menu
sub menu sub menu
sub menu sub menu

currently all it seems to do Is

Main menu
sub menu
sub menu
sub menu
sub menu

and
Main menu
sub menu sub menu sub menu sub menu

witch don't really work for what i need
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The only way I would know of would be to create a png image nav button that has a clear section on the left hand side to give the illusion of the offset. Your only going to be able to do it to one sub-menu. All the rest will fall directly under the first sub-menu.:)
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Lord Maddog,

The CC flash meu builder has only two levels, main and one sub menu. Possibly you will be able to make it LOOK LIKE more levels the way Eric explained.

But have you thought about all the mobile devices that don't have flash installed? How are people going to navigate using those? I suggest that you take a look at the css menu which is built into the CC HTML Editor. With it you can make as many sub levels as you want. Even if you are using VSD, you can create the menu in the Html Editor and import it into your site.
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It seems that I cant get it to work
It leaves a Giant white banner over top my page and I cant get it to even show the tabs

I uploaded them to my site and pasted the html in and hit transparent back ground but It dont work

edit
O ok I thought HTML might work better but I dont know HTML at all can you past a code here I can look at and edit ?
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This site: http://www.smileonyu.com/index.html ? I don't see any flash or css menu there. If not, please post an URL.
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I working on a website for a church http://jilmi.org/index.html

and JIL MINISTRY link is going to have a drop down menu that looks some thing like this

JIL MINISTRY
SCHOOL RADIO
FOOD LIVE TV

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I would highly suggest using an HTML/CSS menu rather than the flash menu builder. Much more versatile and gets away from flash too which has gotten a little quirky over the past year. Many mobile devices do not have the capability to view flash at all so they won't see your menu or anything else that is created with flash.
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I could create the menu for you, but I don't know what you want it to look like, so there you are on your own. You also have to take in account that there will be a folder for java script, one for images and one for css that you have to upload along with the pages. I'll leave to the VSD experts in here to explain the exact steps for you, since I don't use VSD.

In the attached zip file you'll find the source files for a simple css menu with the submenus you wanted.
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ok so I DL Dreamweaver trial (was told its a good app to learn HTML off of)

messed around a bit and got this HTML

&nbsp; </p>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">JIL Ministry</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Item 1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 1.2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 1.3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 3</a>
<ul>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 3.1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Item 3.1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 3.1.2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Item 3.2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 3.3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;

only thing is Its as ugly as windows 95 ! lol how do I make it look GOOD?

I also want it to open on mouse over
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Hiya Lordmaddog,

If you do a search on Google for CSS Menus you will find lots of premade ones that already look good and work as you want where all you need to do is alter the contents of the menu and make a few CSS adjustments for your site. That might help you see what's all involved with the CSS menus. Making it look good usually takes some images or CSS3 gradients which is not hard to do, but if you find one that's already completed you'll see how the images or gradients are used with the CSS. That's a good way to learn how things work too :)

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