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Joe louis
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2010-01-17 16:29:26
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Hello Andrei,
Are there any updates for: Creative DW Drop Down Menu Single-user unlimited license
Latest version: 1.7.4 ?→
I am having problems again with a new website I just finished.
www.mattressxpressonline.com →Please check it out. When the page loads it displays the text links before menu display. I have the <!-- Creative Menus - menu rendering scripts start --> starting right after <!-- Creative menu Designitup end --> and it still loads the text first. What I am not understanding is it only does it with certain menus and not all menus? I finished another website www.rosiethepetnanny.com →which I did not run into this problem at all? You last helped me with www.californiacarpets.net website and you created a new script to add to my website that corrected the visibility problem, but do you guys have a patch for the software yet so that I do not have to bug you with this problem? Please advise...
Joe Louis →Designitupweb.com
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Andrei Rinciog [Extend Studio]
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2010-01-19 08:17:04
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Hello Joe,
I just looked at your page and the menu is not being rendered at all now. This is because you have placed the rendering script before the menu structure. You need to place it beneath the structure for it to work.
Text links appear before the menu because text is always rendered first in browsers. If you see it or not it depends on how quickly the menu is rendered and placed in the page. This time varies depending on the other elements on the page and when the rendering function is called. The best way to limit it is to place the call to the rendering function right beneath the menu structure. In your case, right after this comment: "<!-- Creative menu MattressXpress end -->".
There is also another way to do this and make sure that the text won't appear at all. This can be done by making the links invisible until they are replaced by the menu. This comes with a cost, however, as the links from the menu won't be indexed by the search engines anymore. This is why we have dropped any plans on making this part of a future update. But, if you are ok with the disadvantage then I can help you set it up for your website.
Regards,
Andrei Rinciog
Support Engineer - Extend Studio
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Joe louis
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2010-01-19 14:40:18
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Hello Andrei,
Thanks for getting back to me... yes I am aware of the rendering script before the menu load. It was an experiment I was trying to see if I could figure out why this was happening. What was the "visibility" script you did for me on the CaliforniaCarpets.net website? That seemed to work...Is this the same thing that you are talking about "invisible links"? If so that is fine. If you can get me the new script for that it would be great. I still dont understand why it does it with some menus and does not on others. Like example...check out these other websites I have done and you will see it does not load text before menu?
www.hightechsignsonline.com
www.designitupweb.com
www.rosiethepetnanny.com
www.autographx.biz
these are just a few...
Thanks...Joe
joe@designitupweb.com
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Andrei Rinciog [Extend Studio]
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2010-01-22 10:11:52
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Hello,
If you want to hide the links before the menu is rendered this is what you must do:
- First, download this menuDisplay.js file from here: http://www.extendstudio.com/product_assets/support_files/menuDisplay_no_texts.zip
- Place it on your server, inside the 'includes' folder. Make sure you replace the existing one.
- Edit your pages and search for this tag in the menu structure:
<div id="menu_holder_[your_menu_name">
- Add a style attribute to make that div invisble:
<div id="menu_holder_[your_menu_name]" style="visibility:hidden;">
We will make an update for the Creative Menus to include the possibility to hide that div by default. However, the patches are not ready yet. Until then, do not edit your menu as it will cancel all the changes.
Note: by applying this all the menu links will be invisible to search engines. So, if you want SEO please do not apply this workaround.
Regards,
Andrei Rinciog
Support Engineer - Extend Studio
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