Menus
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Hey all, What do you find is the best way to implement a database driven menu? On my first db driven one, It was just a loop in ASP getting ingo from the database and writing links - plain (yes i did use styles to make it look a bit better) but works. On my second one, it used a bit of javascript to style the menu and make dropdowns - has issues but looked decent. Now I am working on my third site that uses a db driven menu, and am not sure which way i should go for (a)least issues, (b)looks and (c) user friendliness (and yes I am aware it is just a menu, but the menu is the highway through your site... without it, its kinda hard to get around)
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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Hey all, What do you find is the best way to implement a database driven menu? On my first db driven one, It was just a loop in ASP getting ingo from the database and writing links - plain (yes i did use styles to make it look a bit better) but works. On my second one, it used a bit of javascript to style the menu and make dropdowns - has issues but looked decent. Now I am working on my third site that uses a db driven menu, and am not sure which way i should go for (a)least issues, (b)looks and (c) user friendliness (and yes I am aware it is just a menu, but the menu is the highway through your site... without it, its kinda hard to get around)
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
Do you mean drop-down menus? This guy[^] has examples for just about any sort of menu imaginable, all styled via CSS. I would definitely start there. As for how best to generate them from a DB, that's gonna depend on your DB, schema, language, platform...
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'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Do you mean drop-down menus? This guy[^] has examples for just about any sort of menu imaginable, all styled via CSS. I would definitely start there. As for how best to generate them from a DB, that's gonna depend on your DB, schema, language, platform...
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Thanks... that site helped :-)
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon