MenuMachine 2.1.1 review
DownloadMenuMachine 2 is an extension for Adobe GoLive that allows you to build fully editable drop-down menus with no coding knowledge required.
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MenuMachine 2 is an extension for Adobe GoLive that allows you to build fully editable drop-down menus with no coding knowledge required. MenuMachine allows you to work directly within the Adobe GoLive interface that you're already familiar with.
The new MenuMachine 2 features a complete WYSIWYG menu editor which allows you to edit your menu visually, just as it will appear on your page. The new editor allows you to simply drag your mouse to resize and reposition submenus with ease.
MenuMachine 2 now creates vertically expanding menus and adds several dynamic menu animation options.
MenuMachine 2 offers many built-in menu themes to get you started quickly as well as an icon and arrow gallery. Menus can be updated instantly across your entire site and feature several accessibility options to support search engines and non-JavaScript-enabled browsers.
MenuMachine 2 includes direct support for GoLive Actions and link management as well as excellent browser compatibility. If you want to build drop-down menus in GoLive, MenuMachine is your total solution.
What's New:
New Features
A new GoLive Action is installed by default. This action will set a layer so that it stays in the same vertical position when the page is scrolled. This restores the "Scroll to maintain vertical position" option from MenuMachine 1.
Menu highlighting has been improved and is now fully functional. You can now choose a menu item to highlight when a page loads by setting the highlighting options in the menu instance inspector.
Added the ability to set the z-index of the menu in the inspector so that multiple menus can be layered correctly
You can now use absolute paths for the MenuMachine support files and the path prefix can be set in the preferences. This should help users wanting to use the menus in CMS systems or includes.
Fixes and enhancements
The menu code has been heavily optimized and menu load time has been reduced by 30-50%, which will be especially noticeable on large menus
Menu open/close performance and general responsiveness has been greatly improved
Menus placed into CSS layout grids should now always display their submenus above other content in the grid in Internet Explorer for Windows
Vertically expanding menus now collapse correctly when a top-level item with no submenu is clicked
The Click state of the parent menu is now highlighted correctly when submenus are open if this option is selected in the global options
The Image click state in vertically expanding menus is now working correctly
Various problems with click states and menu highlighting have been resolved
Adjusted speed of animation effects for better performance
Added a dialog so that the user is notified if the MenuMachine support files have been updated
Fixed a problem where the "Delay before submenus open" setting could cause menu items to lock open
Removed the insert menu in Win/CS2 as it could cause instability due to a GoLive bug
The theme preview is now correct re-visiting the theme chooser after creating a new menu
Fixed a problem where the menu could retain its rollover state if located next to a frame boundary
Fixed a problem with menu opening in early versions of Safari
Image separators now work correctly in the browser
Menus should now work correctly over iFrames and form fields in most newer browsers
Fixed a problem where menus did not respond correctly in Opera 9
Text positioning issues in pages with an XHTML Strict doctype should be resolved
The menu should now perform better with earlier versions of Gecko-based browsers such as Netscape and Mozilla
You can now change the links to the menu support files to root-relative or absolute references and the menu will continue to work properly. This should help users wanting the integrate the menu with custom CMS, e-commerce or bulletin board systems.
The inspector should now show the correct highlighting options when switching between multiple pages containing menus
Fixed intermittent browser problems that could occur if menu effects are used and cross frame support is enabled for the menu
MenuMachine running in GoLive on Windows should now be able to create and edit menus in sites that are stored on shared network volumes where those volumes are accessed using servershare path syntax rather than a mapped drive letter
Problems with items in cascading menus staying highlighted when the menu is set to open on click have been resolved
Clicking on an item to open a vertically expanding menu can no longer erroneously follow submenu links on mouse up
Animated GIFs in the rollover and click states now work as expected
A problem where multiple menus placed on one page could open each other's submenus in some circumstances has been fixed
Moving the mouse from one menu to another in the page now correctly resets the first menu in pages where more than one menu is present
Highlighting can now be added successfully to menus before the menu palette has been refreshed
Fixed problems in non-supported browsers when actions or highlighting are added to the menu
Added some link icons to the icon gallery
Fixed a problem which was preventing the menus from closing properly in Internet Explorer 5 for Windows
Menus can now be successfully edited and saved even if their site has been closed and then reopened
Fixed a possible crash that could occur when saving a menu
Menu data integrity is retained if for some reason the menu data cannot be written on save
MenuMachine now stores a backup of the menu configuration data
You can now access submenus of highlighted items correctly
Auto-update can now be turned off successfully
fixed a bug that prevented links to # from working
fixed a bug that did not properly escape double quotes in URLs
javascript: protocol URLs are now dealt with correctly
fixed a problem which could cause the highlighting inspector to show the same highlight for the same menu on multiple pages even though the highlighting was set differently
fixed a problem that could cause an error in Internet Explorer 7 beta 2.
Requirements:
Adobe GoLive CS and CS2,
Registration serial number.
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