I am pleased to announce the publically-available preview of a new templated mega-menu provider.  This preview is for internal evaluation only, and should not be used in production.  A full release, including source, is expected at the end of the month.

The provider allows for marking one or more pages as being templated; during instantiation these templates are dynamically inserted into the page.  The templates are highly flexible and may be deployed at the site, skin, or portal level.  This allows for great flexibility in user experience.

More screenshots are available at my blog site.  The project is hosted on CodePlex and is located here.

By way of example, one of the default templates available allows styling of the DotNetNuke administrator menu as:

Hi Brandon,

I downloaded the alpha release and installed it on DotNetNuke. It is a realy nice menu !I have troubles with making a new Template and CSS file.I copy the DefaultTemplate, rename it and put it in Providers/NavigationProviders/DNNTemplatedMenuNavigationProvider.
So i have 2 new files there: for example newmenuskin.ascx / newmenuskin.css

I load them via

<meta name="menuTemplate" content="newmenuskin" />
<meta name="menuCss" content="newmenuskin" />

If i change the CSS file it won't do anything.
I want to create the same example as your WIDE version.

Is this possible in this release ?
The WIDE template is not there.

One more thing: A 3rd level in the menu is not available ? Or do i just have to put in the css ?

Thank you very much.
 

I have uploaded the correct alpha-release package; this version includes several demonstration templates (along with whatever enhancements and bug fixes took place between the packaging of the two versions).  Those that have installed the incorrect release should uninstall that version, and then reinstall the corrected one.  Note that the modified MinimalExtropy skin will break until the updated provider is installed; ensure that no admin skins are using this skin (otherwise the site might become inaccessible).

Thanks to Ely for pointing out this oversight!

This continues to be an alpha release that should only be utilized on a non-production basis.  It has not yet been evaluated with the DotNetNuke 5.1 release.

Brandon