UPDATE November 2011: There’s another drop down tutorial using the SooperFish plugin, check out this page http://www.codeblog.ch/2011/12/concrete5-sooperfish-drop-down-navigation/
A website needs a navigation. If you just started using Concrete5 you’ll realized that its navigation block looks simple but sometimes isn’t. Especially if you want to customize the look beyond css styling. I’m going to show you how to do great an reusable drop down menu with concrete5.3+.
Theme
You can use the default theme, other anything you want. In this tutorial, I’m going to use the theme which I wrote for this tutorial: http://www.codeblog.ch/en/2009/01/concrete5-theme-erstellen/
It doesn’t matter what theme you use, as long as there’s an editable area where you can put your navigation.
When you set up a new site and a new theme, it usually looks pretty empty, unless you’ve added some block using the page defaults. In my case, a newly added page looks like this:
Pretty boring I know! Time to add some stuff
Remo Laubacher
Just look through sooperfish-theme-black.css (or whatever css you’ve copied) and replace the colours!
Can you please comment to the right post (http://www.codeblog.ch/2011/12/concrete5-sooperfish-drop-down-navigation/)? thanks!
kim
I really need help, need to finish this website today and still cant seem to get the menu working properly
Pedro C
Hi there, first I would like to thank for all the work sharing this info withou profit! People like you make the world a better place!
Second: I have an old javascript menu, in http://www.luzesom.pt that is “pull-right-side”. Can this be changed to do that, when I upgrade to C5?
Remo Laubacher
Hi Pedro,
thanks, I’m glad I was able to offer your some free information!
I haven’t seen a menu which I couldn’t convert to concrete5 but depending on the structure and complexity it might take more or less time.
The menu on your site uses a pretty old fashioned structure based on tables. I wouldn’t recommend to convert that menu to concrete5 but rather create a new one.
But you’ll certainly need some time and developer skills!
Remo