Just a note especially for newbies. I looked long and hard to find a menu system that would allow the flexibility found on a site I am creating for a client. The Snapsis CSSNav Menu is what it took. You'll need to learn a bit of CSS, but you can create amazing menus with it. This site, Color Me Crayons has four. One is the normal left - vertical menu that flys right for sub-menus. One is the top - horizontal menu that flys down, and then there is the top - right - vertical - menu that flys LEFT. Finally, there is an Admin menu that is a Select List menu visible only when logged in as an Admin or Host. All done with the same menu from Snapsis.
The "Products" link at the top of the page (horizontal menu) drops down. The "brown character" on the top right vertical menu flys left and the blue character on the left vertical flys right.
Still have some work to do on graphics, such as adding names to the icons used in the menu, but I am waiting on their graphics artist to finish his work.
My thanks to John Mitchell from Snapsis for an amazing and very, very reasonably priced, not too hard to understand menu system and his patience with a total newbie in creating what you see below. To see it live, just click this link Color Me Crayons.
DNN is still an amazing, powerful system. Many thanks to the Core team for an amazing system, and to John Mitchell (for an amazing menu, lots of tips and tricks, lots of DNN support on his site), Nina Meiers (for lots of free training on skins, etc. on her sites and free skins, also her and John's work on Skincovered) Mitchel Sellers (and FreeDotNetNukeStuff) for all his tutorials and sooooooooo very many others. The link here, to Snapsis, is to a page with an uploaded zip file with the Snapsis .ascx menu implementations, and the CSS to make this work. You will still need John's menu to do it, but the text file in the zip explains how I did it all with his menu. The skin is a heavily modified (and free) "Tranquility" skin from Tyler Fawcett who also does awesome and amazing work.
Finally, for all the newbies. DON'T GIVE UP! Keep at it, you CAN do it. It just takes a little time and research and patience.
Clay