[Meta]Drop Down Menus on News Site

[Tom Cashel]

Nice job. I like that I can go to whatever forum I choose directly from the EN News page.

 

[Michael Morris]

Fair enough, could the black bar be extended all the way across the screen then? I'm running at 1280 by 1024 and it stops in the middle. (and looks sort of odd)

In the newest update I rounded the tip so that it doesn't stop abruptly. Unfortunately I can't make the bar go across the top without causing left to right scroll bars to appear on the lower resolutions.

In that update I lowered the font size of the links topside to add the quick links section to the top bar. I think I'm done toying with it for awhile.

 

[Michael Morris]

Oh, and could we add in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy News page and the PDF News page somehow? Perhaps an initial dropdown (before "Community") which lists D&D/D20 News, Sci-Fi/Fantasy News, and PDF News?

I added the quick links section in whole cloth - I can put it somewhere else if you like.

 

[Michael Morris]

The reviews page now has the site wide menu system installed. It was MUCH easier to implement there than on Post Nuke

 

[Michael Morris]

Correction - I'll have to do this one one page at a time

Oh well, at least the code is easier to understand.

 

[rpgHQ]

Did you do a php java script call in the post nuke header file or is it kinda like a header on top of a header or did you do some other code hack to get it to work up there? I am curious as that java menu you got going would be nice with phpbb2 boards and with php-nuke with integrated phpbb2 it should work the same way as you did for post nuke there. Your java menu is better than the php flatfile menu pulldowns I been trying to code, I been doing some real ugly coding

 

[Michael Morris]

Code now installed on the reviews pages. I put the ORIGINAL files into the directory as oldfiles.zip in case I accidently damaged any of the files. If anyone encounters an error message on the reviews site please contact me and I'll correct it ASAP.

 

[Michael Morris]

Did you do a php java script call in the post nuke header file or is it kinda like a header on top of a header or did you do some other code hack to get it to work up there? I am curious as that java menu you got going would be nice with phpbb2 boards and with php-nuke with integrated phpbb2 it should work the same way as you did for post nuke there. Your java menu is better than the php flatfile menu pulldowns I been trying to code, I been doing some real ugly coding

I put all the relevant script into a file called topmenu.js, and I placed the call immediately after the meta tags in header.php (you can see it if you look at the source code). The image map is spliced into the footer.php file because, since it is on a layer, the exact position of the code in the file is irrelevant.

 

[nopantsyet]

Like 'em. And using nightlies of Firebird.

 

[Michael Morris]

Ok... The PDF Reviews site now has the drop downs - I modified the background of the drop down menus to match the silver texture of the rest of the page. That leaves these messageboards.