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Hi. Could you please give me some guidance for creating menus in my fusionlite or color fusion site?

I am used to developing sites in NetObjects Fusion, where multi-level JavaScript drop-down horizontal or expand-out-vertical menus were automatically generated based on the site structure. I have also used a product called AllWebMenus that did the same in my sites.

Is it possible with your Joomla templates to have horizontal and vertical multi-level drop-down or expand-out menus created automatically based on the section, category, and article structure of the site? Is this a feature of Joomla or of any Joomla modules?

I have mod_mainmenu and mod_exmenu-j15 installed. I also see the Super Suckerfish Menu item in your template parameters. But I haven't figured out how to set these up for automatic multi-level drop down horizontal or expand-out vertical menus. I am also wondering whether these modules can be applied to more than one menu throughout the site.

There's a big learning curve for me in the move to Joomla. Any specific guidance you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much.

Barry

Hi Barry

The menu is a fixed horizontal menu built into the template (i.e. it will always display in that position and it is not actually a module). The menu itself has three different display options, namely flat-list, super suckerfish and split menu. These menu options can be set in the template parameters and they are different ways of displaying the horizontal menu.

In order for you to have child items that float like in our demo sites all you need to do is to create menu items in Joomla and set their parent:

Eg.

QUOTE:
Go to Menu->Main Menu->New, select a menu item type and then in the next screen set the "Parent Item" field to the parent menu item you would like the menu to be a child item under

The super suckerfish menu has the ability to go three level's deep, the split menu two levels and the flat-list will just show the parent items.

Joomla uses the standard Menu structure to create its menu items. We have developed our own custom menu that calls those menu items. We should be able to apply similar logic to have a section/category to be the menu items and unfortunately it is not a feature at the moment but it would be a great idea for us to make something like that and is definately worthy of being put in the pipeline.