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Hi everyone!

We are happy  to report that we have released AllWebMenus v5.2 build #798!

The new version includes the following new features and enhancements:

- Enhanced and renamed the "Auto Item Highlight" property to "Show Item or Group on Appear" to reflect additional features.

When the menu initially appears on the page, you can have an item shown as "selected" (highlighted) or a group appear open. Either automatically (item selected based on page URL) or manually (by choosing a specific item or group ID, either through the interface or through a variable in the HTML page).
See an online example

- Added the "Twitter Bar" within AllWebMenus. Now you can learn about our work on new features before we even release them! You can also learn about additions to our website, new examples, help topics, blog posts, etc.

- Fixed an issue where the AllWebMenus interface could not open when the user selected to open a file from the Welcome dialog.

- Fixed an issue where an unwanted horizontal scrollbar could appear when a submenu appeared (on specific cases only).

- Fixed a compatibility issue between AllWebMenus and Thickbox.

You can download the latest version at http://www.likno.com/download.html.

If you want to view all features and enhancements added on every released version (chronological), you can visit our What’s New Page.

When the menu initially appears on the page, you can have an item shown as "selected" (highlighted) or a group appear open.

See an online example:
http://www.likno.com/examples.html?example=show_item_group_on_appear

This new property is found here:

There are 3 options to achieve this:

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Hi everyone!

We are happy  to report that we have released AllWebMenus v5.2 build #796!

The new version includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Added an option in GUI for selecting the desired preview doctype from a list.

• Fixed an issue where the status bar was not showing links (in IE7 browser).

• Fixed an issue where a horizontal status bar appeared, because of wrong position of subgroup (IE only).

• Changed the Joomla Structure input to support Unicode.

You can download the latest version at http://www.likno.com/download.html.

If you want to view all features and enhancements added on every released version (chronological), you can visit our What's New Page.

Hello everybody,

We just wanted to inform you that we have released new Mega Menus examples.

If you go to our example page, you will be able to see 2 Mega Menu examples available, as well as download their project file.

The examples are simple variations of the vertical mega drop-down menus found at the foodnetwork.com and actionenvelope.com websites:

http://www.likno.com/examples.html?example=mega_dropdown_menu1

http://www.likno.com/examples.html?example=mega_dropdown_menu2

As Jakob Nielsen (the "king of usability") says in his article on mega drop-down menus usability, mega menus have the following characteristics:

• Big, two-dimensional panels divided into groups of navigation options
• Navigation choices structured through layout, typography, and (sometimes) icons
• Everything visible at once — no scrolling
• Vertical or horizontal form factors when activated from top navigation bars; when activated from left-hand navigation, they might appear as mega fly-outs.

How is this menu created?

• Each submenu is a single item
• This item uses the "HTML - Full Mode" option at its "Text" property
• Using full HTML you enter any content you like at the submenu item

Q:

When I open an external page in the modal window, I see the background color of the window's "Body Area" covering parts of the external page.

A:

Web-designers sometimes tend to forget assigning a background-color to their page if they want it to have a white background. This however is wrong and can have side-effects in some browsers and some cases.

Specifically if you load a page without background-color in an iframe, Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox will all treat the page background-color as transparent and will show the contents of the containing object behind the iframe. Internet Explorer and Opera on the other hand, will automatically set the page background to white.

In the case of Modal Windows, loading an external page that has no background-color will cause it (in the above specified browsers) to display the background-color you have set for the "Body Area" through the "Body CSS".

In this case we suggest that you either:

1)      put a background-color in the <body> of the external page (preferred option)

2)      put a white background to the modal window (through the "Body CSS" property)