The extensions seamlessly blend 2 of the best menu technologies - DHTML and FLASH. It takes the flexibility of DHTML menus and the Flash look and feel when constructing what can be called the ultimate tool for web site menus.

In the following I will guide you through the main features of this amazing Dreamweaver extension:

• Easy & Intuitive user interface( no hand coding required)  plus a detailed help

• 100 % customizable

• Ready to be used just out of the box  with automatic asset update & upload 

• Easy to define menu structure

• Easy skinning & styling (Custom skin editor)

• Integrated Preview Mode

• Easily manage your menus across the website

• Other Features ...

To get started, click on the “Insert a Drop Down Menu” icon   by accessing the Creative Menus Toolbar from the Dreamweaver Insert Toolbar in Dreamweaver 8 and CS3.

The Insert Toolbar can be opened by pressing Ctrl+F2 or select insert from the Window menu; It’s a tool bar that contains multiple categories. You need to select the Creative Menus category in order to see Creative Menus Toolbar.

The interface will open with the General Tab selected which holds the general parameters that configure the menu.

The Creative DW Vertical Menu extension is designed to be compliant with our Plug & Play standard so the learning curve is almost instant. No hand coding required so you can build up your menus in minutes.

The interface is further organized in six tabs, providing you unlimited customizability options.

• Layout Tab: holds the positioning and sizing parameters for the menu items and submenu items ( alignments, spacing, margins, minimum dimensions, button resizing options and others )
• Animation Tab: holds the parameters which will help you define the button and submenu animations. You can choose from more than 35 transition effects and set the duration for each of these effects.
• Text Tab: this tab gathers all the information needed to set up the text held in the menu buttons. You can set: font, size, style & color, alignments, spacing and margins.
• Preview Tab: The integrated preview gives you the possibility to see how the menu would look like with your changes applied on without having to publish the page.
• Presets Tab: You can use the Presets Tab to save your menu configuration as a preset so that you can reuse it at a later time.

If you're using one of the built in skins you can have the menu set up just by filling in the parameters on the General tab. The other tabs will be automatically filled in with the default values for the selected skin.

Also with the automatic asset update & upload there is no need to upload the menus assets every time you make a change.

Defining the menu structure is simple and intuitive job because now is displayed as a tree. Each item in the tree represents a menu button. Below the tree view you can find a toolbar that you can use in order to add/edit/delete the menu items that are displayed in the tree.

Creative DW Vertical Menu features an advanced styling system that offers the ability to change the menu colors & fonts, from the user interface. Also you are able to change the entire look of the Creative DW Vertical Menu using custom made skins. 

 

We have developed a preview system that saves you time. Using the preview there is no need to publish the web site to see the menu changes made in the authoring environment.

You can easily manage your menus across using the "Update in all pages" ,"Insert existing menu" , and „Delete from all pages” features. These allow the user to easily update all the pages that contain a Creative Menu after making changes in one page and insert an existing menu in a new page or delete the menus with just one click.

The Creative DW Vertical Menu seamlessly blends 2 of the best menu technologies - DHTML and FLASH. It takes the flexibility of DHTML menus and the Flash look and feel when constructing what can be called the ultimate tool for web site menus.  The extension improves your site’s search engine optimization. The menus are SEO Friendly, 100% customizable and it comes with over 30 customizable built in skins and more than 35 effects.