The Universal CSS Navigation Menu for Dreamweaver allows you to create all kind of great web site navigation menus: Cascading Drop down Menus, Mega Menus, Popup or Context Menus. The menus use great display animations, are CSS based and fully cross browser compatible, which makes them search engine friendly, easy to use and very stylish. Choose from the 13 supplied CSS designs, adjust them or create your own to fully suite your site.
Universal CSS Navigation Menu Manual
Create all kind of great web site navigation menus
The Basics: Creating Universal CSS Navigation Menu with Sub Menus
In this tutorial we will show you how to create a horizontal menu with sub menus using Universal CSS Navigation Menu
*You can also check out the video here.
How to do it
1.Define your site in Dreamweaver and create a new page.
2.Applying the extension – Choose the 
icon from the DMXzone object bar to
apply the extension.
The Universal CSS Navigation Menu dialog appears:
3.Adding menus – Click the Add New Menu Item button to add a menu item. (1) Enter a name and choose a link for this sub menu. (2)
4.Adding custom icon – In order to add a custom icon for the menu click Browse for file icon. (1) You can also style the icon left or top, and add an ID to the element.
4.Adding Sub menus – Select a menu (1) and click the Move Menu Item Right button (2) in order to make the sub item a child of the Sub Menu. You can add Title, Link or a custom Icon for each Sub Menu.
- If
you need any sub sub level items follow the same procedure using the Move Items arrows.
5.Design and Orientation – Open the Advanced tab in the Universal CSS Navigation Menu dialog. For our menu we choose the Horizontal menu with Dark Blue Design.
6.Menu appearance, Navigation and Animations – From the options in the Menu Panel you can set the menu Width, Menu Title or add a Search Page. Choose whether or to show the sub menu on Hover or on Click from the Navigation Menu and select an animation.
7.When you're done click OK to save your work and preview the result in your favorite browser.
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