scrolling text clashes with drop down menu

[odette01 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

If you check [url]www.orcreative.co.uk/elaine[/url] you see on the home page that i have a pop out menu that works fine. Only when i went to put in the scrolling text on the information page, the menu disappears. Theres something in the dhtml thats clashing. But being only a learner i cant quite see whats wrong!

If anyone can see problems, all help gratefully received!

Thanks

[Murray *TMM*]

Elaine:

Ugh -

function mmLoadMenus() {
if (window.mm_menu_0125133427_1) return;
window.mm_menu_0125133427_1 = new Menu("root",99,18,"Arial, Helvetica,

You will have lots of similar and troubling problems with these badly flawed
all javascript menus (and any others, too). Perhaps the most troubling one
is that your site will not be spidered by search engines as long as these
menus are the only navigation element on your site.

Are you too deeply committed to them to not use them? If you are, then
you're going to have to put your hands into the code (probably places you'd
rather not go, too!).

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"odette01" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> If you check [url]www.orcreative.co.uk/elaine[/url] you see on the home page that i

have a pop out menu that works fine. Only when i went to put in the
scrolling text on the information page, the menu disappears. Theres
something in the dhtml thats clashing. But being only a learner i cant quite
see whats wrong!

>
> If anyone can see problems, all help gratefully received!
>
> Thanks
>
>

[odette01 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Oh dear! Sounds pretty bad. Im pretty new to this really, a lot to learn!! So you think that i should have other navigation elsewhere on the site rather than drop down menu?

Im not committed at this stage. Its a site im doing for a friend for nothing so she's ok to go with whatever i do! Whats the best option to get seen on search engines? The thought of having to delve too much into code is not good! Until i get to know it a bit more i could end up making a right mess of it!!!

Im from a designers background rather than a coding but trying to cross over and learn a bit more!!! So any advice is gratefully received!

Thanks.

[Murray *TMM*]

odette:

Well, putting a site map or plain text HTML navigation on your site would
solve the spidering issue, but I'd rather see you get rid of those
all-javascript menus altogether. They are fiddly and pernicious!

Here is a great read about how to make menus that have none of these
problems -

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/menuing/mcloser/index.htm[/url]

or

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/auto_hide/index.htm[/url]

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"odette01" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Oh dear! Sounds pretty bad. Im pretty new to this really, a lot to learn!!

So you think that i should have other navigation elsewhere on the site
rather than drop down menu?

>
> Im not committed at this stage. Its a site im doing for a friend for

nothing so she's ok to go with whatever i do! Whats the best option to get
seen on search engines? The thought of having to delve too much into code is
not good! Until i get to know it a bit more i could end up making a right
mess of it!!!

>
> Im from a designers background rather than a coding but trying to cross

over and learn a bit more!!! So any advice is gratefully received!

>
> Thanks.
>
>

[odette01 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I think back to plain html naviagtion and then having the extra links that were on the drop down menu might be the simplest way! They werent necessary. Ill have a play with the menu tutorial you gave me a link for.

Thanks again! Ill get there in the end!

[Murray *TMM*]

Good luck!

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"odette01" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I think back to plain html naviagtion and then having the extra links that

were on the drop down menu might be the simplest way! They werent necessary.
Ill have a play with the menu tutorial you gave me a link for.

>
> Thanks again! Ill get there in the end!
>
>