Hi Mark,

Just a few thoughts on this...

First, for what it's worth, you can put static items into the DNN menu. You do it by adding pages, but making those pages links in their advanced properties.

Second, you can put anything you want in a skin file. The reason that skins are installed like normal extensions is that they basically have the power of normal extensions. You can put custom code in there to do whatever you want.

Lastly, you can also write your own menu provider. I actually tend to use the telerik menu provider because I have their developer license, but, the point is, you can write you own. You can begin to figure out how by looking through the code for the DDR menu available online.

Hope this helps,

Mike

As the DDR menu is templatable, i would concentrate at creating a template that renders the HTML you have in your menu now, then the existing CSS should work fine.

More info in the Wiki