menumaker for adobe golive and make own menu shapes?

[MarkieJ]

some questions about menumaker

Does menu maker allow import of menus
into adobe go live?

is there an application out there that I can
buy that doesnt cost as much as go live,
but I can make webpages of my OWN design and
layout??

and does menu maker allow you to design your
own style of drop down menus or can you only use the templates provided and change the colours? I`d like to create my own shapes and
textures and colours for the tags.

thanks for the help.

sincerely
and merry christmas happy holidays !!
Mark J

[MarkieJ]

some questions about menumaker

Does menu maker allow import of menus
into adobe go live?

is there an application out there that I can
buy that doesnt cost as much as go live,
but I can make webpages of my OWN design and
layout??

and does menu maker allow you to design your
own style of drop down menus or can you only use the templates provided and change the colours? I`d like to create my own shapes and
textures and colours for the tags.

thanks for the help.

sincerely
and merry christmas happy holidays !!
Mark J

[John Rayner]

"is there an application out there that I can
buy that doesnt cost as much as go live, but I can make webpages of my OWN design and layout??" - Mark J

Yes... and the odds are that it is already installed in your computer. It is called wordpad and you can find it under the accessory section in your start menu. With it you can do everything that any web page building program can do.

The only drawback is you have to know the scripting languages... It is my main website design tool. But then I am half nuts too...

Menumaker will not let you mess with the shape of the drop downs, because they are all text. The buttons you can change as long as you keep the same names and physical size...

[MarkieJ]

LOL John, you aren`t half nuts, your just
half genius or more, that made me laugh
when you said wordpad, the only thing word
pad does for me is copypaste webpage
text without the images, great app for me for
that but thats where the buck stops.
Thanks for the suggestion but I`ll leave that
skill to you,
on the other topic when you said the buttons you can change in menu maker as long as you keep the same names? and size?, what did you mean by that sorry, I`m not sure,
do you mean that the text stays the same, and
the size of the drop down stays the same, but the shape, colour and texture of the drop down, (say I want them bevelled, not the text but the border of drop down) can I do this?
because I was under the impression that you
couldnt choose your own shapes,colours, textures
bevels. I thought it was just templates, if you
can I`ll buy the product.
sincerely
Mark J

[John Rayner]

Hi Mark,

I have not tested all the templates, but from the very few I have looked at The submenus are CSS text scripts, meaning you can only use different fonts and colors. Bevels, bells, whistles and the kitchen sink will not work with the submenus.

With the menu itself you can create anything you want in xara x1 and use it as long as it has the same "footprint" (width on a horizontal bar, height for a verticle bar) so the submenu will line up properly. the name must be the same so the html will know which button(graphic) to call.

It is a neat little program and worth the money unless you are a speed typist and can sling your own code just as fast.

For a group of samples to get a client thinking about what they want and how it should look, then it is well worth the money paid.

[John Rayner]

"John, you aren`t half nuts, your just half genius or more, that made me laugh when you said wordpad," - Mark

Done with Wordpad...

BHD
RCRE
petes

Yea.. I am half nuts... I live in SD

[MarkieJ]

John your sites look good !
very informative, and they load very quickly
considering some sites from the US load
slowly here in australia!

merry christmas and all the best for the new year.

mark J

[John Rayner]

Thanks Mark,

They are built for speed. The very minimum code to accomplish the task. Some of the larger pages in those sites are over &frac12 meg worth of html. Any fluff would slow them down to a crawl. All where built using wordpad and xara. They are either flat html or flat html from a perl script.

[MarkieJ]

Well the speed of loading is awesome,
well done,
The only thing that turns me off websites
is when they load slowly, because if theres
a lot on there and you want to move around
and read it with say the speed and comfort
of a newspaper, it just takes forever sometimes
everytime you go back and forth, I think sometimes some companies forget that its better to have a fast loading webpage for customer satisfaction than a flash animation page and lots of dhtml and its always dragging out the loading time everytime you go to another page.
so you have a good balance on your stuff!

mark

[John Rayner]

"The only thing that turns me off websites is when they load slowly" - Mark

I tell my clients taht the only thing people wait for is a picture with hair around it... Other than that, they want it now!