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The AllWebMenus Joomla Menu add-in & component combination is designed to retrieve your Joomla menu from your Joomla website and import it into the AllWebMenus application to create stylish, feature-rich navigation menus, but not only! Apart from creating menu items derived from your joomla menu structure, fully customize your menus adding your own non-joomla menu items with external or internal links, html-rich content, colors, borders, effects, designs of your choice and many more!

For instructions and suggestions about installation and use of the software combination, visit the relevant page in the Likno Web Site.

See examples of menus already inserted into a Joomla site in the AllWebMenus Joomla Menu examples page.

Now you can easily add in your Joomla site a stylish menu generated by the AllWebMenus PRO software!

Note: the AllWebMenus Joomla Menu add-in & component combination is supported in AllWebMenus PRO v5.1.758 and above.

These are the new features and fixes introduced in version 5.1.758 of AllWebMenus Web Menu Maker (released on December 3rd, 2008):

- The Joomla Menu Add-in & Component released and included in the distribution. Create stylish, feature-rich navigation menus based on the structure of your existing Joomla menu but not only! Fully customize your joomla menus adding your own non-joomla menu items with external or internal links, html-rich content, colors, borders, effects, designs of your choice and many more.

Joomla Menu examples

- New compile option added: The "Place dot.gif in" option, which allows the menu to function on rare server environments that require separate folders for javascripts and images. Read more

- Fixed an issue where the right image of an item (if used) did not appear properly (on Gecko browsers and some cases only).

- The Server-Side Menus API Add-in is now on version 2.0.9: Fixed an incompatibility between the API javascripts and MooTools (if used on your website).

- The WordPress Menu Add-in is now on version 1.0.4: It is now based on the new version 2.0.9 of the Server-Side Menus API Add-in (see above).

- Fixed an issue where the vertical scrollbar did not appear correctly in GUI when the user maximized the window.

These are the new features and fixes introduced in version 5.1.756 of AllWebMenus Web Menu Maker (released on November 11th, 2008):

- The GUI of the WordPress Menu Add-in has been enhanced.

- The "Tools -> Compile for..." command has been added for better handling of the Compile/Link process on different use cases or CMS/Tools.

- Fixed an issue where the <Has Submenu Image> did not show properly in a vertical menu, on certain cases only.

Apart from the basic menu design approach (which involves AllWebMenus features such as Background Colors, Borders etc.) you can also use a more advanced web menu design approach by incorporating your own images to your projects to enhance them or by simply exporting them as themes.

When you install AllWebMenus Web Menu Builder, you will notice a range of existing pre-installed themes, which can be used to improve the appearance of the menus. However, AllWebMenus themes stored in the "Theme Gallery" directory (C:/Program Files/AllWebMenus5/Theme Gallery) have only one color version available.

If you plan to use a different color scheme or make changes to the shape of a button, you will need to manually change the theme images.

In this guide, we will show you how a menu is constructed using AllWebMenus and, of course, an image editor (i.e. Adobe PhotoShop) where the menu graphics are created.

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The 5.2.798 version of the AllWebMenus Web Menu Maker introduces the feature "Show Item or Group on Appear" (under the Main Menu's Group Properties), which specifies whether an Item whose LINK property matches the URL of the loaded web page will be highlighted by default.

By selecting "Automatically, based on URL", any item whose property matches the URL of the web page that is being viewed will be displayed with its [Mouse Over] or [Mouse Click] state instead of its [Normal] state, thus creating a "highlighting" effect.

Example 1:

Let’s assume that your web menu has a “Company” item that links to the company.html page:

Suppose you browse the following URL:

If the "Show Item or Group on Appear" property of the web menu is set to "Automatically, based on URL" using its "Mouse Click" values, then the menu will appear as follows:

All items are displayed at their [Normal] state except of the “Company” item which is displayed at its [Mouse Click] state, implying that the page viewed is linked by this item.

Example 2:

Let’s assume that your menu has a “Product 2” item in the Products Submenu Group, that links to the product2.html page:

Suppose you browse the following URL:

If the "Show Item or Group on Appear" property of the web menu is set to "Automatically, based on URL", then the menu will appear as follows...

...and when you select the "Products" submenu then the "Product 2" item will be highlighted by default, implying that the page viewed is linked by this item.

As you can see, the parent item (in this case the "Products" item) is also highlighted in order to indicate that a submenu item (i.e. "Product 2") matches the URL of the viewed page.

Note: If multiple items within the web menu link to the same page then all matching items will be highlighted.

Note: The following article describes how you can keep a menu item highlighted automatically. If for some reason (e.g. earlier version users) you would like to use the manual method of keeping a menu item highlighted based on the URL of the loaded page, please read more information here.