Menu Problem

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rock_chick January 5, 2007 at 01:58:32 Pacific
Specs: WinXP Home SP2, AMD 2.1Ghz, 256mb RAM

I'm using a DHTML menu and it's mostly working except for some annoying traits. When you use the menu to go to another page the browser still says you're on the previous page even though the one showing is different and also if you click back the previous page is loaded without the menu meaning it needs to be refreshed or the URL reentered to get it to show again. Here's the website
http://www.geocities.com/writers_co...
Can someone please give me some idea why this is happening and some way to change it?

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rock_chick January 5, 2007 at 02:01:03 Pacific

I also forgot to mention when you click on the About option on the menu it says the page doesn't exist but I've checked and that is the correct URL for that page.

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glass inspirations January 5, 2007 at 05:03:44 Pacific

hi its a bit messy isnt it, I would suggest looking on dynamic drive website and choosing a css based menu system alternatively look at this site forum they are all really helpfull and you get responses within minutes or hours rather than days.
http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/for...

fused glassware and stained glass windows website

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rock_chick January 5, 2007 at 05:34:53 Pacific

I've looked around at lots of menu options and this option was the easiest and best working for me, I can't get myself to comprehend css properly let alone its menus.

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milonic January 6, 2007 at 05:04:41 Pacific

Hi,
Have you tried the menu from www.milonic.com
Very easy to use and has a great support forum if you get stuck
HTH

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rock_chick January 6, 2007 at 07:23:36 Pacific

Those menus are not free as our the ones I would use and secondly basically I really want someone to help me work this one out because I really like it.

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mjdamato January 6, 2007 at 08:44:09 Pacific

"I also forgot to mention when you click on the About option on the menu it says the page doesn't exist but I've checked and that is the correct URL for that page."
The link for the about page begins "http:/www". you need two forward slashes like this "http://www"
You are wanting us to help you fix this, but what exactly do you expect us to do? The only fix is to rewrite the code, and I think you would be hard pressed to find someone willing to do that. As other's suggested, I think you need to look for a different menu. Then you could ask for help on implementing it.
Michael J

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rock_chick January 6, 2007 at 10:30:16 Pacific

I realize I'd need to alter the code but I don't think it needs to be completely rewritten, I'm not asking people to get rewritten parts of it, I'd just like someone to point out some part(s) of the code that may be causing these problems and suggest a solution. It's not like I haven't tried using other menus, I have and trying to find one I can work with is kinda driving me nuts.
Thanks for letting me know about the URL mistake with the About menu option, I suppose I just wasn't looking hard enough at the URL.

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mjdamato January 6, 2007 at 11:52:57 Pacific

Unfortunately to try and debug the code would require analyzing the code see how it works in order to determine how to fix it. That is a time consuming process and there are about 600 lines of code in that script! Plus, that code will not work for any user that has javascript disabled. A CSS menu would not have that problem.
I took a look through the code and to try and debug it would take some time.
Michael J

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rock_chick January 6, 2007 at 17:11:09 Pacific

Ok thanks anyway, I was just hoping it was something obvious that someone would be able to pick up and I the thing about javascript, well I realize it's not for everyone but don't the majority of people have it enabled?

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mjdamato January 6, 2007 at 23:23:24 Pacific

"...but don't the majority of people have it enabled?"
Yes, most do. But, that is something you need to keep in mind. I've worked on many professionsl ASP applications and that is a very important question. For some, the added functionality that js offers was important enough that we required users to have it enabled. For other applications, accessability was more important.
Michael J

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rock_chick January 7, 2007 at 01:41:40 Pacific

I agree another type of menu is probably a better idea. I checked what happens when I turn off javascript and my website just says a line about the browser not support script, it's not very informative. I looked into Flash but when I tried to test it some Macromedia thing was asking me about settings, doesn't seem an over user friendly option.

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mjdamato January 7, 2007 at 09:56:15 Pacific

Take a look at the menu on this site: http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/m...
Exaclt the same function as you want, but without all that incomprehensible javascript.
There is a tutorial there on how to create it.
Michael J

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porov February 15, 2007 at 14:56:44 Pacific