independant menus

[Tracy]

Here is a link to my site in progress and example of my menus I am trying to achieve. At the moment I am trying to make 2 separate navigation menus work independantly with the CMS.   I managed to make the horizontal menu work in my template by replacing the menu with {menu} http://www.zendog.ca/index.php?page=testing-one

I am having issues with the horizontal nav as well in a small way If you hover on the TEST PAGE the drop down text doesn’t follow my CSS , this is the current page . The hover effect over the MEDITATION links and drop down links work fine until I select one then when I hover again the text of the current page is ugly again. Any ideas why and how I can correct this?

Working on my left column navigation I have downloaded the bMenu module and am having problems with it. What am I doing wrong?

These are the instruction I am following.

{cms_module module="bMenu"} Place in the header of your template
When I place {cms_module module="bMenu"} within in my temple, my flash image doesn’t work. I have this line of code there for the flash.

Then for each menu on the page add;
{cms_module module="bMenu" styleid="..."}
Question; when making my template do I highlight the first menu and replace it with the above and adding styleid=”1” in place of the … and then do the same for the second menu replacing the … with styleid=”2” ?

Then the directions say this;
below each {menu ...} call. (DO I REPLACE THE … WITH SOMETHING HERE?) Here the styleid is the id of the stylesheet you are using. This call is shown in the Settings tab (with the right id). (WHERE IS THE SETTINGS TAB?)
The default settings of the bMenu module work best when the menu uses the cssmenu.tpl template.
{menu template="bMenu" ......}
I have no idea what to do here. Please help

1. In a nutshell, I need to make the horizontal menu and the leftcolumn menu work independantly.
2. The issue with the change in text for the current pages

Please reply, many thanks

[Dr.CSS]

I no nothing about bMenu, I would use one of the default menus, if you look at a default install there is one that has a menu across the top and a second on the side it can do what you are looking for...

For horiz. use {menu template="cssmenu.tpl"} and vertical {menu template="simple_navigation.tpl"} then use the corresponding Style sheets making changes to suit you...