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MenuMachine - 2.0.2

drop-down menu builder for Adobe GoLive

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Selected Version:	2.0.2
Release Date:	2005-09-19
License:	Update
Downloads (version 2.0.2):	225
Downloads (all versions):	19,573
Price:	$65.00

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Product Description:

MenuMachine 2 is an extension for Adobe GoLive that allows you to build fully editable drop-down menus with no coding knowledge required.

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 in this version:

Menus that use PNGs or transparency should no longer display oddly in IE for Windows.
Menus should now display correctly in IE5 for Mac and early versions of Safari.
Menus should now be correctly positioned in IE5 for Mac if the menu is placed in a table cell or table-based grid.
When animated menus are used, submenus should no longer occasionally 'stick' open.
A 'flash' in the menu that could occur when switching between pages containing menus in some browsers no longer occurs.
Status text specified for a menu item is now working properly in browsers that support it.
Updates to the menuspecs.js file are now properly recognized by the GoLive link management system, preventing some links from breaking if files in the site that are linked from the menu are moved or renamed.
The presence of the menu support files is now verified more thoroughly and updates are made where necessary.
Unsupported browsers should now correctly see the link to the site navigation page.
Over and Click arrows are now appearing, even if there is no normal state arrow.
mailto: links now work correctly.
Right-aligned text now respects any X-padding that has been set.
Submenu offset settings for cross-frame menus should now work correctly.
A workaround has been implemented for a Z-index issue in IE for Windows which occurred if the menu was positioned inside a relatively positioned container, such as a GoLive CSS layout grid. The problem caused the submenus to display behind other page content - the menus will now display in front of other page content in this situation.
Menu names containing special characters should now be read and written correctly.
Action and Frame settings are now saved properly when the page is saved.
Putting two different menus on the same page should no longer cause conflicts.
An alert dialog that appeared when clicking some links with a target set no longer appears.
Links with a target of '_top' should now work as expected.
Arrow and Icon images are now appearing properly in the site window after being created.
Arrows and Icon images are now marked as being "Modified" so that they can be uploaded.
The images folder was sometimes not being created in the menu folder. This should no longer occur.
A problem where menus could not be found after a site was re-opened has been resolved. The issue was due to special characters in pathnames - the pathnames should now be handled correctly.
Umlauts and other special characters in the menu are now written to the site map page correctly.
A robots meta tag set to "noindex,follow" has been added to the default template for the site navigation page.
Various issues with line endings have now been resolved.
Some users who were seeing a Save for Web dialog when trying to use menus which contain cropped images should no longer experience this issue.
Hard drive or folder names which contain single quotes or special characters should no longer cause problems.
The link to the site navigation map page now is assigned a class name of "mm_no_js_link" so the text can be styled using a style sheet.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

Adobe GoLive CS or CS2

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.0.2:
Overall Rating:	(1.0)	Features:	(2.0)	Support:	(1.0)
Ease of Use:	(3.0)	Quality / Stability:	(1.0)	Price:	(1.0)

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Excellent Add-On to GoLive, Great Customer Service - Version: 2.2.1, 1/12/2008 06:53AM PST

Robert Paterson

MenuMachine is a lifesaver, literally. I used to spend much more time building menus, and this plug-in allows me to move on and use my day doing other things. I am a mid-level designer, and my coding skills are not great, but I would think that this would be useful for great coders as well. It's not that difficult to use, and the results look great across all platforms and browsers.

I found one glitch, something to do with how bold fonts display in Firefox (it's a Firefox limitation, not something to do with MM). I emailed tech. support, and they got back to me within a day and gave me a work-around, which worked perfectly.

All in all, this is one of the best additions to GoLive that I can own. If you design menus and want to save time, you couldn't possibly do better than MenuMachine.

The best GoLive add-on. Period. - Version: 2.1.1, 5/27/2007 07:42AM PST

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Simmonet

If a client has ever asked for drop-down menus on their website, unless you've used Big Bang's MenuMachine the request normally illicits a groan.

Long the bane of web developers everywhere (as clunky both in look, feel and programming), drop down menus requests became welcome with this excellent GoLive add on we've been using in my company for the past 4 years.

Version 2 offers an amazing number of features and configuration options, and above average stability (GoLive not being known for it's robustness!) and allows us to add a high level of managed complexity to our drop down menus that enhance user experience and ease of use.

If there's any compliant I have about this software it's that the shear number of configuration options can be a little daunting at first, but once you take some time to play around and read the excellent online manual the program's results speak for themselves.

An exceptional Mac GoLive add-on. Highly recommended to those of us still passionate Dreamweaver holdouts.

If you need drop down menus, this has it all & does it all! - Version: 2.0.3, 11/11/2005 08:47PM PST