Navigation bars

[mattwheeler]

Hi everyone,

Need some advice as to how to make a nav bar. Im looking for something like the nav bar along the top of the macromedia site. www.macromedia.com. A set of images or text that when hovering over adds more links below in order to save space with lots of links.

When would I need to do to create a bar like this? Choice of code, programs etc.

Thanks for your help in advance,

Matt

[sharkey]

You would need a decent knowledge of the program Macromedia Flash as that is what was used to create it. But there are other method such as using CSS and xhtml but to get it to look exactly like that just use Flash. Make sure you provide alternative navigation as people who dont have the flash plugin wont able to navigate your site.

[mattwheeler]

Yeah I guessed flash would work but I would like to get around that if possible. Is there a way to acheive expanding links without nice fade in effects that flash would use?

[sharkey]

Yes with the use of an unordered list and css but there would have to be minimal javascript as Internet Explorer does not allow the hover peusdo on non link items.