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Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

Andrew_one — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:57:59 GMT

I'm doing custom menu control for every project i take i never using solpart at all cause it's ugly and useless toy for personal home pages not for the serious web development

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

jjmartin — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:50:21 GMT

I use the component art skin object for my menu and it works well. It behaves much better than solpart in strict mode. Its not really a skin object in the sense that you can just drop [CAMENU] or some other token in your skin. You need to drop it in to your skin like a regular .NET control.

I think the way that object is set up, leaves far too complex options for the menu to be set by a single tag.

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

nokiko — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:20:00 GMT

its a skinobject

install it, then install the skins thensetthe skin and you will see the menu in use

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

aj_at_byaj — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:06:45 GMT

Nokikko,
I have tried to install your menu on DNN 3.Is there an instructions file or something somewhere, cause I gets nothing. When I install the PA, it says it installs ok, but when I go to the Modules list, it isn't there...

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

nokiko — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:47:33 GMT

my css menu is almost done fixing a final bug that I encountered when tryin to style items with german weird characters . So by the weekend I will release version 1.0

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

jennifermccann — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:51:45 GMT

This looks like a great menu system, but you can not navigate in Explorer or Safari on a Mac. Any suggestions for a menu system similar to this that supports the Mac? Thanks.

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

DBuckner — Mon, 30 May 2005 23:46:37 GMT

I will be releasing a ASPNetMenu Actions menu skinobject soon also. I have a couple things left to finish up.

Dave

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

DeveloperMCDBA — Mon, 30 May 2005 20:28:13 GMT

Wow, thanks guys for all your info!!

For those of you like me who have bought the ComponentArt menu (which I am very happy with), they actually have a DNN skin object (i think...i'm not quite sure what a skin object is actually): http://www.componentart.com/forums/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=42

You may have to be registered as a beta tester to see the forum. This DNN / Component Art integration component was done up by the guy who runs http://www.speerio.net/ | http://blogs.speerio.net/peerio/CategoryView,category,DotNetNuke.aspx

Thanks again,

Darren

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

aaava — Mon, 30 May 2005 16:13:42 GMT

Designer72 wrote:
I would highly recommend SmartLinks menu. I have been working on making DNN as cross-platform friendly as possible since the SolPart menu is not very Mac friendly. I was using CoolMenu which is great, but it doesn't have the action menu replacement inside the modules which is what crashes on Mac and old browsers. Oliver has been incredible with the support for SmartLinks and I have found it to be the most important purchase of my DNN business. I am slowly migrating all my sites to use SmartLinks now. The control I have is incredible as well. I can skin a very advanced nav system in less than a half hour now which use to take a LOT longer. If you care about having close to 99% of surfers to be able to use your site you should stick with CoolMenu or SmartLinks. I've tested all others and they have fallen short. HouseMenu is also very compatible, but until there is a skinobject I can't use it as a menu replacement. Have fun!

Well, this might have been true up until a couple days ago. Jon has been working on making the solpart menu Mac IE 5.2.3, and Safari compatible. Except for one little nit w/submenu borders and w/main menu hover color (if you use a top-level different hover color that is) overriding the normal top menu color for IE, solpart now works fine in both 10.4 and 10.2 as I can attest. I believe Jon is working on fixing those last 2 nits in the near future. Also, the only nit w/safari is that the sub submenus vertical location appears to be ignored...and Jon is aware of this nit also.

Besides that, solpart works fine for Mac now. I know, because I've been working w/him to test it, and I'm a pretty anal-intensive kind of tester. ;-) You can download the latest version from Jon's website (v 1.6), though I don't know if he's updated the menu.js file w/the latest fixes. You can emai him. He seems to be a pretty nice dude...and I know he's taken a lot of hits about solpart browser capability in the past, but those days are behind us now.

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

nokiko — Mon, 30 May 2005 15:48:41 GMT

FYI

Telerik skinobjects are to be released this week tomorrow or day after. I al allready playing with the RC ( the perks of being an MVP )

We are currently developing a sample DNN site with our controls already integrated. The skinobjects are already complete, featuring also an installation manual. This should be available tomorrow. It looks great :)

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

Designer72 — Mon, 30 May 2005 14:17:15 GMT

I would highly recommend SmartLinks menu. I have been working on making DNN as cross-platform friendly as possible since the SolPart menu is not very Mac friendly. I was using CoolMenu which is great, but it doesn't have the action menu replacement inside the modules which is what crashes on Mac and old browsers. Oliver has been incredible with the support for SmartLinks and I have found it to be the most important purchase of my DNN business. I am slowly migrating all my sites to use SmartLinks now. The control I have is incredible as well. I can skin a very advanced nav system in less than a half hour now which use to take a LOT longer. If you care about having close to 99% of surfers to be able to use your site you should stick with CoolMenu or SmartLinks. I've tested all others and they have fallen short. HouseMenu is also very compatible, but until there is a skinobject I can't use it as a menu replacement. Have fun!

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

nokiko — Mon, 30 May 2005 13:51:50 GMT

oh yeah my css menu

yeah all the people that have asked for it i have sendit to them. I have put it on backburner because of cleints and personal issues but its bout time to release it. Im waiting for dnn 3.1 release then ill do a final test and setup a site for it.

i also have an image only one level menu with 3 menu states ( normal hover and selected ) and the selected part goes to the nth level http://offshoreprogrammeur.websecurestores.net/Services/dotnetnuke/tabid/62/Default.aspx ( both seervices topmenu as dotnetnuke side menu are in selected state )

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

slope — Mon, 30 May 2005 12:48:02 GMT

Come to think of it, there is a few really good ones developed by Dnn'ers as well.

Nokiko is almost done with a css menu pack release ready maybe this week?

Inventua, great side menu. They also have a horizontal one I think.

Smcculloch had a skinobject with antoher menu embedded. Sure he has upgraded it.

Housemenu this is free.

Yetanotherfree menu

A css menu.

Also take a look at taskhand, I belive they have a menu coming out anytime soon now.

I hope I didn't leave anyone out. But if others know about different options not listed pls add them as well.

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

uzi — Mon, 30 May 2005 04:35:32 GMT

I've got a SmartLinks skinobject that replaces the default menu. It's currently in closed beta, but if you'd like to check it out, shoot me an email.

you can see it in action @ my dnn3 website. I'm planning on getting it released very shortly. I've got maybe 5 or 6 users now testing it, and I haven't had too many issues so far.

Re: Has anyone replaced the DNN Menu with another menu control?

slope — Sun, 29 May 2005 21:57:39 GMT

Always do proper research before a purchase

Well you will be more then happy to live with the aspnetmenu. It is rather good. Used it for a 2x project for a client.
As for the other controls from telerik, if there is anything you fancy they will work just as well with Dnn as componentart.
Have even seen a site that used both menues.....but as it turned out it did look good.