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Menus are very important for web site usability and a key element of navigation. Menus also support the overall design of a website if they look good and fit into the other design elements. Even though there are many options available it has never been easy to create complex and dynamic menus unless you’re a experienced developer. Recently Extend Studio released a new product that may change this, at least is you’re using Adobe Dreamweaver. FlexiMenus JS is a Dreamweaver extension that allows both developers and designers and create and easily manage drop-down, vertical or tabbed animated JavaScript menus across a website.  FlexiMenus JS offers 30 transition effects like Fade, Slide, Reveal and 15 menus skins that can be managed from the Dreamweaver UI, with no coding required. It’s really promising!

Extend Studio have kindly sponsored 3 licenses that will be given away to readers of tripwire magazine. All you have to do to participate is to retweet this article and leave a comment Twitter status url before 06/08/2009. More details below. 

FlexiMenus JS main features

FlexiMenus JS key features – Designer Edition

• Create drop down, tabbed and vertical animated JavaScript menus from the Dreamweaver UI
• The implementation can be done entirely from the Dreamweaver interface, with no hand-coding
• 15 ready made skins, each with multiple color schemas
• 30 eye-catching transition effects: fade, slide, reveal, etc
• Seamlessly embed menus into the website layout with the advanced positioning features
• Build your own look&feel with the easy styling system, to customize fonts, colors, margins, images and text styles
• Insert multiple menus in one page with unlimited levels
• Show menu/submenu on hover or click
• Keep button selected after click
• Set Open/close delay
• Run custom scripts on click or on hover (JavaScript calls)

FlexiMenus JS dynamic features – Developer Edition

• Organize data, create and configure animated JavaScript menus dynamically without writing manual code
• Define the menu design from the GUI, pull data using a Dreamweaver recordset
• Server-side languages: PHP, ASP, Coldfusion
• Multiple databases support including MS SQL, Oracle & MySQL
• Select which recordset generates the menu
• Select the column that contains the unique Menu IDs
• Select the parent ID column for unlimited depth menus
• Reads different columns for buttons, section header and separators
• Dynamically set labels, links and links target from the database

SEO compliant JavaScript menus

• Generates a pure tableless menu
• W3C XHTML transitional compliant
• Wide browser support: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari Windows, Mac Safari, Mac Opera, Mac Internet Explorer, Netscape
• SEO friendly

Contest Details

What the winner will get?

Winners will get a free license to FlexiMenus JS for Dreamweaver Developer or Designer Edition.

Who can participate?

No specific segment. It is open to all but please only participate if you are planning to use it FlexiMenus JS for Dreamweaver.

How to Participate?

1. Tweet this post and confirm your tweet by commenting the twitter status URL. ex. http://twitter.com/tripwiremag/status/2604845236. You get this URL by cliking the link just below the twitter entry containing text like this: “about 2 hours ago from web”.
2. Winner will be nominated randomly via http://www.random.org/.
3. Fill your name and e-mail address correctly because the winner will be contacted via e-mail only.
4. Contest is open till 06/08/2009 and the winner will be announced on 07/08/2009. All comments submitted after 06/08/2009 won’t participate.

Please besides participating let me know if you appreciate contents like this one to be published on tripwire magazine. Your feedback will be highly appreciated.

About the Sponsor

Extend Studio has been launched in 2005 and since then it has developed a suite of Dreamweaver menus, Flash effects and animated Web charts that ease up designers and web developers work while being strongly involved in the Adobe users community. Extend’s tools enhance the functionality of Flash (8, CS3, CS4) and Dreamweaver (8, CS3, CS4) bringing new features, optimizing the development and increasing the productivity for both beginners and advanced users.

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