Recent Questions
Q: Hi I recently bought a menu from you - which is great.
However, i have been told that search engines will find it hard to crawl through the menu and find the other parts of my site.
Is it possible for me to create my menu to make it easier for search engines to crawl through?
A: Deluxe Menu is a search engine friendly menu since v1.12.
To create a search engine friendly menu you should add additional html code within your html page:
< div id="dmlinks">
< a href="http://deluxe-menu.com"> menu_item_text1< /a>
< a href="http://deluxe-tree.com"> menu_item_text2< /a>
...etc.
< /div>
To generate such a code use Deluxe Tuner application.
You can find this GUI in the trial package.
Run Tuner, load your menu and click Tools/Generate SE-friendly Code (F3).
Q: I created a button set and saved the project. I was able to open it for a while, but now every time I try to open the data file it gives me this message: Access violation at address 004AACF7 in module 'deluxetuner.exe'. Read of address 00A78000. Is there anything you can help me with?
A: You used Individual Item Styles for the main items, but there was noindividual style in your parameters.
["Home","http:/www.jx2productions.com/index.html", , , , "_self", "0", , , ],
["About us","http:/www.jx2productions.com/about/index.html", , , , "_self", "0", , , ],
Q: Is it possible via code customization to remove the border only for the top level of popup navigation
and subsequent menu levels with the border?
If yes, would you provide technical assistance with the required code change?
A: You can use Individual Item Style in that case.
You should create Individual Style, for example:
var itemStyles = [
["itemBorderStyle=none,none"], // style 0
];
And assign it for top items:
var menuItems = [
["Home","testlink.html", "", "", "", "", "0", "", "", "", "", ], // assign style 0
["Product Info","", "deluxe-menu.files/icon1.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon1o.gif", "", "", "0", "", "", "", "", ], // assign style 0
["|Features","testlink.html", "deluxe-menu.files/icon2.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon2o.gif", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Installation","", "deluxe-menu.files/icon2.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon2o.gif", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Supported Browsers","", "deluxe-menu.files/icon2.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon2o.gif", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["||Windows OS","", "deluxe-menu.files/icon3.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon3o.gif", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["||Internet Explorer","", "deluxe-menu.files/icon5.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon5o.gif", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["||Firefox","", "deluxe-menu.files/icon5.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon5o.gif", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["Samples","", "deluxe-menu.files/icon1.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon1o.gif", "", "", "0", "", "", "", "", ], // assign style 0
["|Sample 1","testlink.html", "deluxe-menu.files/icon6.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon6o.gif", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Sample 2 is Disabled","testlink.html", "deluxe-menu.files/icon6.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon6o.gif", "", "_", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["Purchase","http://deluxe-menu.com/order-purchase.html", "deluxe-menu.files/icon1.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon1o.gif", "", "_blank", "0", "", "", "", "", ], // assign style 0
["Contact Us","testlink.htm", "deluxe-menu.files/icon1.gif", "deluxe-menu.files/icon1o.gif", "", "", "0", "", "", "", "", ], // assign style 0
];
More info you'll find here:
http://deluxe-menu.com/individual-item-styles-info.html
Q: You will see I got the first level looking amazing.. this is exactly what I wanted. The interesting thing I figured out was not to use the item border.. this was messing things up. You may notice that when each item highlights.. there is a 1px white line at the separators.. but this is not produced with the item border, but rather from the separator itself which I made in two 1 pixel lines, one blue, on white.. this created that effect.
So now my only problem left is to figure out how to bring this look into the submenus. I was thinking it would be nice to use the separators in the same way throughout the submenus. There does not however seem to be a way to do this. When I tried inserting a separator into a submenu.. nothing happened... I am probably doing this wrong.
Can you please show me how to create the same look I have in the first level in the submenus.. this would be helpful.
I must say, this menu is finally starting to look the way I originally envisioned it. I am very happy. =o)
Thank you so much for all the help you have given me.
A: To add separators in submenus you should write it so:
["|-",] //first level submenus
["||-",] //second level submenus
and so on.
Try that.