[Solved] Very Confused About Menus...Please Help

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I have what's likely a stupid question, but I can't figure out how to make drop down menus work in my website.  I need to have a drop down menu in the horizontal navigation so that when the mouse goes over the products button the 17 categories currently listed next to all the product pages shows up in the dropdown menu.  When any one of those product categories is clicked on I want only the submenu that's currently listed in the vertical menus to show up in the left sidebar.  Selecting the product category in the product drop down menu should also take the content area to the first product in the product category.  If possible I want the user to be able to click on the products button, without choosing a category, that takes it to the a main page with all the categories listed with a generic content area, like it has now.

I have read the forums and the documentation for the last week and I don't get it.  If somebody could tell me how to do what I'm trying to do I'd appreciate it.  The link is www.jpdistributors.net/cmsmadesimple/

Thanks.

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In case that description is unclear I want it to be like this navigation...

http://www.zendog.ca

Thanks

[Deblus]

I use template  CSSMenu top + 2columns for the home page

and template    Top simple navigation + left subnavigation + 1 column  for all other pages

[Dr.CSS]

Your template/site has a menu template it can't read atm...

ZenDog uses a default cssmenu template that may have some modification to the template itself, looks like they renamed the ul id to nav...

They then changed the CSS to have the style they wanted...

You can use cssmenu for your top then in left side another, but not fly out because IE6 won't take 2 cssmenus at the same time tried it every which way...

Left would have the parameter start_level="2" which would show the children of top menu clicked items.... read the menu help...

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Hi,

thanks for the help with fixing the menus.  As it turns out the people I'm building the website for decided to do something different for the menu, so I won't need to do that style of menu after all.  Thanks for the feedback and help though.

[Dr.CSS]

[solved] ?...

[christiaans]

Solved added, topic closed.