What is Sothink DHTML Menu?
Sothink DHTML Menu is a drop down menu builder, which assistant you in making cross-browser menu, fast-loading menu and SE friendly menu in clicks. 100+ templates & 30 styles included; integration with main-stream web editors; support database driven menus; fully customize menu style.

Main features:
* Full cross-browser compatibility, support IE9 beta.
* Seamlessly integrates with DW, FP, EW and GoLive.
* Supports database driven navigation menu with ASP, PHP, JSP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion.
* Creates functional navigation menu, such as tab menu, highlight menu, scrolling menu, cross-frame menu, multi-level/multi-column menu, custom menu, floating menu, etc.
* Offers 100 + free templates, 30+ preset styles; and provides image library for menu design.
* Publish wizard guides you to publish the drop down menu to website step by step.
* Customize web menu properties, like font, icon, background, border, cursor, tool tip, etc.

Check some samples of DHTML Menu:

1. Anchor chain drop down menu

2. Grass green web menu

3. Notepad navigation menu

Download Sothink DHTML Menu to create a well cross-browser menu.

As we know, iPad drop down menu is the vital element in iPad web design; it has the characteristic of navigating iPad website, beautifying iPad web page and including more contents in less space. And if inserting iPad drop down menu into iPad web page, your website will get better user experience. Let’s view the JavaScript menu on iPad.

• Make Your iPad Website Fluid Web Design

With iPad, you can view the websites in landscape or in portrait mode. In fact, the web designer need to make different two web designs for displaying website perfectly. Of course, there is a simple method to get the ideal results – a smart combination of CSS and JavaScript. This way enables your iPad website performs well on iPad and PC.

For drop down menu, you can set the menu’s width in percent to make it work well, which matches with iPad website of different resolutions and dimensions. From below figure, you will see almost the same menu effect in two web pages of two dimensions.

• Design Big Enough Link and Hover Effect

iPad is not the traditional point-based deices, all the interaction between iPad and users is touch, which is fulfilled by finger. For getting better user experiences, you should design link and hover effects big and clear, so that the user can dexterously click upon it.

Below presents us the drop down menu in website and iPad drop down menu in iPad website, you can get clear comparison.

• Create Your iPad Website with HTML 5

HTML 5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop. With HTML 5, Google is use HTML 5 for Youtube. As web designer, you should try HTML 5 to make iPad web page.

Keep these advices in your mind; you can make the compatible iPad website for iPad users.

The iPad drop down menu above-mentioned is created by Sothink DHTML Menu. Besides this drop down menu, it offers us more JavaScrip menu, DHTML menu.

DHTML Menu

The top-rank DHTML Menu creates perfectly iPad drop down menu for iPad website of landscape and portrait mode. With the built-in templates and rich preset styles, you can create SE friendly JavaScript menu in minutes. Fully customize iPad drop down menu to match with iPad web page. Free integrate with web editors as add-ons to build iPad drop down menus directly.

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Sothink DHTML Menu is an easy-to-use drop down menu builder, it can create SE friendly and fast-loading JavaScript menu without coding. Rich templates & styles enable you to create cross-browser menu in clicks. Seamless integrates with main-stream web editors, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 supported. With this navigation menu builder, you can easily make functional menus, database driven menus. Menu appearance can be fully customized too.Main features of drop down menu builder:

• Full cross-browser compatibility: supports IE, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari (Support Safari 5 on Win & Mac).
• Seamlessly integrates with Dreamweaver (support CS5), FrontPage, Expression Web and Adobe GoLive as add-ons.
• Supports making database driven JavaScript menu with ASP, PHP, JSP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion and more.
• Creates functional JavaScript menu, such as tab menu, highlight menu, scrolling menu, cross-frame menu, multi-level/multi-column menu, custom menu, floating menu, etc.
• Offers 80 + templates, 30+ styles; and provides image library for background, icon, arrow and separator.
• Enables to save background color of preview window in authoring files, which make it convenient for editing next time.
• Publish wizard guides you to publish the drop down menu to website step by step.
• Customizes web menu properties, like font, icon, background, border, cursor, tool tip, surround, effects, alignment, transparency, size, etc.

Please visit Sothink DHTML Menu for more information.

For Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 users, you will be prompted to auto-install Dreamweaver extension during Sothink DHTML Menu builder installation.

Download Sothink DHTML Menu and enjoy 30-day free experience.

A One-day Deal promotion will be launched on Sothink.com from April 21, 2010 to April 28, 2010. You can find the most popular and award-winning Flash decompiler, SWF editor, drop down menu maker, logo maker, etc, and all of them will be sold at 50% discounted prices.

1. One-day Deal Schedule

2. How to Order the Discounted Tools?

You will enjoy the discounted price via coupons. See the following steps:

Step 1: Follow the normal ordering process to enter the purchase page;

Step 2: Fill in the “Discount coupon” box with the coupon code we offered;

Step 3: Click “Update cart”. As follows:

Step 4: Complete the whole purchase process.

The offer expires on April 27, 2010, so take your chance and go to Sothink.com to find your desired web design tools.

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Rich built-in templates and preset styles let you create professional DHTML menus that work in all browsers within just a few minutes. Even amateur web menu designers can make advanced drop-down menus easily. In the latest DHTML Menu V9.3, 15 nice and new templates are available for your convenience.

Samples of the new added drop down menu templates: Flip, Gray, Skelecton, Pure Black, Olive

This outstanding JavaScript menu builder supports making database driven JavaScript menus with ASP, PHP, JSP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion and more. You can also create various functional menus like tab menu, multi-column menu, etc. Menu appearance can be fully customized. Good integration lets you add menus to your web pages using your existing HTML editor.

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1. One-day Deal Schedule

2. How to Order These Discounted Flash Authoring Tools?

This special offer is provided as coupon codes that are listed in the above table. Moreover, related One-day Deal information will also be noted in each product’s home page.

To enjoy the discounted price, you just need to follow the ordinary ordering process. When entering the purchase page, please fill in the “Discount coupon” box with the coupon code we offered, and then click “Update cart”. As follows:

Now you can enjoy the discounted price by completing the whole purchase process.

This offer expires on February 7, 2010, so take your chance and get preferred Flash authoring tools now by visiting the Sothink.com website.

How to make your site and navigation menu compatible with IE 8 for webmasters?

Hurry to upgrade your DHTML Menu to the latest version 9.2, which has been unveiled on March 27, 2009 at Sothink site, working well with IE 8! Webmasters or designers can use DHTML Menu to create eye-catching navigation menus in a visual edit mode. After creating a DHTML menu, they can add it to web pages in a fast and easy way. Free add-ins for Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web and GoLive help quickly integrate DHTML menus with web site.

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This is a site navigation menu which is compatible with IE 8.

A multilevel DHTML menu compatible with IE 8

A tab menu compatible with IE 8.

Followed is a World Map made by DHTML Menu compatible with IE 8.

 Take a look at the Pre-designed DHTML menu templates and maybe you can find one close to your heart:

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Sothink Software is pleased to announce the spring 2009 sale offer: enjoy BIG discount to get DHTML Site Navigation Suite. This significant discount lets all menu users get both DHTML Menu and Tree Menu in one bundle for as low as $99.00, save 34% off!

What can DHTML Site Navigation Suite do for Web designers and Webmasters?


Webmasters or designers can use DHTML Menu to create superb, unique and eye-catching navigation menus in a visual edit mode. After creating a DHTML menu, they can add it to web pages in a fast and easy way. Free add-ins for Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web and GoLive help quickly integrate DHTML menus with web site. Now, DHTML Menu has upgrade to new version 9.1, supporting Internet Explorer 8 RC1.

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Tree Menu, users can get search-engine-friendly DHTML menu trees with full cross browser support in a few of minutes, without writing a single line of code. Tree Menu is the most powerful and easy JavaScript tree menu builder. It uses user-friendly interface which all the other competitors cannot beat.

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Enter “Preview > Preview Setup” to configure the preview setting.

Web designers can set Background color and Page margin to configure the menu so it can suit the HTML web page better.

• Background color
  Set the background color for preview window. You can set the background color the same with your web page, so you will get the matchable menu color and style.
  
• Page margin
  Input value to set menu’s left and right margin in the preview window.
  

After the menu creating, you can preview the menu in a certain HTML page and preview its effect! This function is for those advanced users of Sothink DHTML Menu.

• Preview in Pages
  To preview the menu in an HTML page, you can set this option to get it.
  Choose the button “Add” and pick up the page which the menu is inserted into, put the cursor in the place where the menu is shown in the page, so the menu can locate in the proper position in the HTML page. You can choose the button “Edit” to change the position of the cursor, so does the menu’s position.
  

There’re some other options；

• Auto-refresh preview window:
  Checking this option, the program will refresh the menu result in preview window automatically when you make any modification.
• Prompt to refresh if the menu is modified:
  This option is available with the option “Auto-refresh preview window” unchecked. Checking this option, the program will prompt you to refresh the menu result by clicking the prompt.
• Display the HTML page in program’s preview window
  Checking this option, you can see the exact position of the DHTML menu within built-in preview window of the program.
• Display the HTML page in external preview window
  Checking this option, you can preview the exact position of DHTML menu just in external preview window.

This function can layout your menu perfectly, which makes the whole menu and each menu item get the precise size. So it is convenient for you to configure the background image of menu item; the position of menu and its popup items can also be set separately as well.

You can also set the “Page Margin” in Preview Setup to position the menu in your webpage more precisely.

The current coordinates of the mouse show as X 132 and Y 2 in the right bottom of the state bar.

F.A.Q:

1. How to show ruler?
– There are two ways to show ruler, one is to click “View > Ruler” on the menu bar; the other is to press shortcut key Ctrl+R.

2. Can I change the measurement units?
– Yes. Just right-click anywhere within the ruler and the ruler settings will popup. The available units are pixel, inch, or centimeter. And the default measurement unit is pixel.

3. How to change the coordinate origin (in order to calculate the size value of the whole menu and each menu item)
– You can change coordinate origin to help you calculate the size value easily. Just press down the mouse in intersection area of horizontal ruler and vertical ruler, and then drag the crossing down to the position where you want the coordinate’s origin locates. When dragging the crossing, a horizontal and a vertical line will appear to guide you. The new coordinate origin is the intersection of horizontal guide and vertical guide line.

Intersection area

Take above image for example: new 0 in the top ruler moves 300 pixels right; and new 0 in the left ruler moves 200 pixels down, the crossing is the new coordinate origin. To restore the ruler coordinate origin, you can right-click anywhere within the ruler and choose “Reset”.

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