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6/29/2010 12:59 PM

Chris Davis

Joined: 9/15/2005

Posts: 6

Navigation and/or Skin Question

Hi Everyone,

Please let me know if I’ve posted in the wrong forum and I’ll direct this question there…

I’m not familiar with how to create a custom menu in DotNetNuke but was wondering if any of you know of a different way menus could be layed out in a tab / submenu fashion that would allow all top-level navigation to appear as tabs across the top of the web page while second level navigation appears for all child-pages.

For example, if you're given the following menu structure hierarchy:
    Home
    About
        Locations
        Contact Us
        History
    Members
        Calendar
        Forums
        Newsletter
        Chat
    Directors
        Forums
        Shared Files
        Calendar
        Email List
        Member DB
        Tech
            Laptops
            Mobile Phones
    Help
        Signing Up
        Contact Us

Can it be layed out in the following way (this is crude, but I'll try using a table here since I can't upload a PDF):

*{Company Logo}*		*{My Website Name}*
Home	About		Members	Directors	Help
Locations	Contact Us				Members Membership Latest: ... Past 24 Hours: ... Prev 24 Hours: ... Overall: ... ...
Contact Us	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam turpis nulla, aliquam vitae tempus at, dignissim a dolor. Nunc quis sem nisl. Nulla a rhoncus eros. Nunc dictum enim quis nisi ullamcorper ultricies dignissim nisi gravida. Nulla arcu eros, ultrices eu interdum vel, tristique id enim. Sed eget lectus erat, in semper risus. Mauris in faucibus ligula. Nulla fermentum hendrerit massa eget tincidunt. Integer ullamcorper molestie aliquet. Curabitur nisi enim, aliquet nec vestibulum et, placerat id quam. Donec suscipit, orci sed blandit hendrerit, augue ante vulputate magna, sed consequat lacus libero ac lorem. Nam diam justo, viverra at feugiat id, suscipit at ligula. In volutpat ornare nibh, ut accumsan sem tempus at. Fusce vel mi sed libero rhoncus suscipit eget eu metus. Suspendisse potenti.   Maecenas ullamcorper elit quis libero vestibulum vel blandit magna malesuada. In porta adipiscing viverra. Sed fermentum pulvinar nisl in fermentum. Duis bibendum massa sed nisl accumsan in tristique metus malesuada. Suspendisse tellus nunc, gravida vel sodales ac, gravida sed neque. Ut id iaculis metus. Nunc accumsan enim vitae arcu mattis sagittis. Aliquam pulvinar facilisis massa quis egestas. Pellentesque non mauris vitae nunc dapibus posuere et vitae leo. Aliquam rhoncus quam eros. Aliquam erat volutpat.
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Thanks in advance!

-Chris

6/30/2010 3:48 AM

Albert Sala

www.psdtodnn.com
Joined: 10/30/2009

Posts: 441

Re: Navigation and/or Skin Question

Chris,

If you're creating the skins yourself, you can achieve this using 2 [NAV] menu items. There's a good example here by Timo Design: http://dnnskinextensions.codeplex.com.... You can look at the .ascx file code to see how it's achieved.

The above option will create the sub menus based on the pages you create in the CMS automatically, but you can also achieve the same thing manually by using a links module, which you can show on the specific root page and relevant child pages.

These are 2 options but there are other ways as well, so if the above isn't working let us know and we'll advise on the other ones.

Hope this helps,

Rick.

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7/3/2010 5:11 PM

Chris Davis

Joined: 9/15/2005

Posts: 6

Re: Navigation and/or Skin Question

Thanks Rick,

I'll have to give that a try.

-Chris

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