Recent Questions
Q: I am using the deluxe menu 2 and I've found that on IE7 there is a Page Zoom function, when you use this the text in the drop down menu appears blurred, but the text on the top level remains clear?
Have you seen this?
Use IE7 and zoom to 150%. Is there anything I can do to prevent this effect?
A: Try not to use effects in this case:
var transition=0;
Q: I am working in a Hispanic area, and need to be able to utilize specialcharacters
in titles in for navigation menus.
However, those are appearing distorted on my website.
A: Actually you can use any letters in the menu.
Please, check that you've set "Tools/Use utf8 encode".
When you save your data file in UTF8 you should use the same encoding on our html page.
So you should write:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
If you don't want to use UTF-8 encode on your page you should turn off
"Tools/Use utf8 encode" property, save your data file and manually
change your letters in any text editor.
Q: Compliments on your product, I particularly enjoy the complete set of gui and java, that allows for the quick changes.
After a couple of months of using the trial, I have now purchased it and installed the license.
My question however regards the performance of the menu. Using firebug I note that my deluxe menu .js are the performance bottlenecks, It appears as if they are not being cached and it appears that collecting them is taking longer then the other .js files. What can I do to optimize the load time of the javascript multi level menu and prevent, reloading it from the server with every page reload. The apache has set the expiry correct I believe, as I understand from the header.
A: You can try to use AJAX technology.
AJAX-like technology: data for submenus can be loaded "on-the-fly" from the server.
New parameter:
var tajax = 0/1; - disables/enables AJAX-like support
Current syntax for item parameters ( var tmenuItems):
[text, link, iconNormal, iconOver, iconExpanded, tip, target, itemStyleInd, itemXPStyleInd, jsFileName]
Where jsFileName - .js filename on the server with submenu items ( var tmenuItems).
Q: I am in the process of building this site, but as you will see the menu text is showing on the top menue, but not the javascript hide menu itself.
A: You forgot to upload engine files on you server.
That is why you see search engine friendly code for the javascript hide menu only:
<div id="dmlinks" style="font:normal 11px Arial;color:#ff9966;text-decoration:none">
...
</div>
Notice that you should call dmenu.js file and dmWorkPath parameter on your html page only once.
You should write only
<noscript><a href="http://deluxe-menu.com">Javascript Menu by Deluxe-Menu.com</a></noscript>
<script type="text/javascript"> var dmWorkPath="OnlineHelp.files/";</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="OnlineHelp.files/dmenu.js">