Because we're working on a range of CSS skins for the Skincovered Goodie Bag, I've been looking at different menu options.
At the moment, for pure css menus, there is the house menu, but I haven't used it for quite some time, as I use the Snapsis CSS menu which you can see an example of here -
http://november.skincovered.com - it's the bling skin.
When I initially used the Nav Menu I think there were a few things that required ironing out and for now - I've put the elements online that I am pretty sure work - I created an xls and html file out of it - and you can view it here. -
http://www.skincovered.com/dnn-menu.aspx - While it doesn't give specific details you can see comparisons to the two taken from the documentation and more clearly displayed. It's not a top priority now, but I will have more code online as I get time which is displayed in sample snippet format such as this -
http://www.skincovered.com/solpart-ascx.aspx where the code has an example and describes it's location - eg.. inline, css, xml - I'm still working out the format and we have to apply the examples but it's been pretty helpful so far to pick up a bit of code to drop into the skin or xml file.
What I have found with the menu was that in it's normal state, by default was taking a little longer to load the graphics, which made me want to explore the other functions the menu is supposed to have.
I am working on another free skin at the moment which is specifically for DNN 4.4 using the docheader functionality which is now available.
John Mitchell is also working on a new menu which, fingers crossed, will make it into the January goodie bag, and it's purely CSS based, skinObject and will allow for flyout features. I know there are other menus in the pipeline but like everything - it takes time - and testing takes up alot of it I have found.
You can see an example of the skin that was mentioned here -
http://www.ninasfreeskins.com/xdnnlight/home.aspx so you can see how it works. I have still yet to master how the nav menu works - it's not behaved completely as I expected, but I'm sure it's only a matter of learning.
I was able to do more with solpart menu -it took a while to crack but I was personally pleased to finally get the active menus to work as expected in both IE 6, 7 & Mozilla - Menu sets are available in the package too but there is an example here on how it renders -
http://december.skincovered.com/menus.aspx
There are also commercial solutions such as telerik and component art, but I found they drop alot of code into the page.
Anyway - there are a few more ideas and thanks for the nice comment about the skin - they take up a bit of time to do and I am looking forward to having more time in 2007 to be more active again, since I've had quite a bit of time getting some systems in place to get things easier to manage.
Nina Meiers