Navigation Samples

[KitchM]

Does anyone know where one might view samples of the various navigation css samples?

Thanks.

[JohnnyB]

https://www.google.com/?q=CSS+menu+navigation+examples

[KitchM]

Thanks, but I meant just the ones that come with CMSMS.

[Dr.CSS]

Look to the defaultcontent link below...

Or, you know, install CMSMS with default content and see the backend also...

[KitchM]

Right, but there are no samples. Perhaps because the preview pane is empty and blank.?.?

[Dr.CSS]

The menu manager reads the Content > Pages list of pages and makes an UL LI of any page marked to be viewable in the menu using a menu template, there are some samples in menu manager or you can make your own...

The look or functionality of the menus are determined by CSS, be it drop downs or simple open lists of active parent pages or parent top menu with children side menus is up to you...

Other wise I think we may need a better explanation of what you are looking for...

[KitchM]

I am not sure how to say it differently.

Let's look at it this way. Each menu is laid out with template information that has been manipulated by CSS to form various menus. They may be vertical or horizontal. They may be drop down or not they may be colored or not, or have shadows or not, etc..

Each menu may have very unique physical properties that cannot be seen unless they are displayed somewhere so that the user knows what its going to look like if applied to the web pages. And since menus are often pre-created by others to apply to one's site, one must know what they will look like in advance.

So there is the need for samples or examples.

That's what I want to see.

I cannot see even the default ones unless they are applied to a page. Not the easiest way to see them.

I'm all out of descriptions of what the user needs, and what I need to see. I hope that covers it for you.

[JohnnyB]

I look at the menu templates pre-baked into the CMS like this:
They are for understanding and knowing how to manipulate the server-side template. They are not for presentation.

Yes, the samples use some very common CSS and HTML that might do one or two very common things that many menus have in common. But, that is it. There is little to none frontend markup / presentational code.

The purpose of the menu templates, inmho, is to provide the smarty tags and logic needed to generate menu links. It is not to provide a finished frontend menu.... The design (HTML & CSS) is just a rough framework to get someone started. So to have frontend examples beyond what DR CSS mentioned (the ones that come with the default installation data) is not going to help.

[Jeff]

Right, but there are no samples. Perhaps because the preview pane is empty and blank.?.?

Yes the samples are in the default content, install a new copy of cmsms and check the option to install the default content.

Jeff

[KitchM]

Thank all.

I'm beginning to get the picture. There simply is no way to do side-by-side. or quick switch-between, comparisons of the various options like menus.

Again, thanks to everyone.

[KitchM]

I just realized that what I might be looking for is a WYSIWYG editor for the Menu Manager. Is there any such thing?