CSS Menu Builder Tool

[gnomeontherun]

Ideas:

Any thought about transparency?
What about other CSS font features: line-height, letter spacing, etc?
What about having a first step: select your units. So people can have everything based off pixels, em, whatever.
What about sub-submenus? Any way to expand that? I think sometimes those can be appropriate.
Super cool feature would be the ability to create basic graphics, like gradients. This would most likely be a v2.0 feature.

Just some ideas!

[ubh]

Awesome input jeremywilken,

[Q]Any thought about transparency?
[A]Good point. CSS3 opacity will be added to the roster now after a sucessful test of this CSS3 filter all the way down to IE6.

[Q]What about other CSS font features: line-height, letter spacing, etc?
[A]line height is already supported MENU / Link Vertical Spacing maybe I should name it appropriately. Letter spacing and possibly a few other font options I may left out will be now included in the next version.

[Q]What about having a first step: select your units. So people can have everything based off pixels, em, whatever.
[A]Unit setup is a must and will be incorprated in verison 1.3

[Q]What about sub-submenus? Any way to expand that? I think sometimes
those can be appropriate.
[A] Infant sub menus is on the back burner until all bugs and immediate features have been worked out, but yes this is the ultimate goal.

[Q]Super cool feature would be the ability to create basic graphics, like gradients. This would most likely be a v2.0 feature.
[A]Indeed until more browsers that carry a large portion of internet users are updated with proper CSS3, then things such as gradients and basic graphics (rounded corners) will not be supported in the near future. I have been however looking at JavaScript Vector based objects for rounded corners and maybe gradients but this seems to be a dead end cause the user would have a menu that would rely on JavaScript and LOTS of market up to support the vector objects.

Overall Great Idea m8!!

[gnomeontherun]

Originally Posted by ubh

[Q]Super cool feature would be the ability to create basic graphics, like gradients. This would most likely be a v2.0 feature.
[A]Indeed until more browsers that carry a large portion of internet users are updated with proper CSS3 things such as gradients and basic graphics like rounded corners will not be supported in the near future. I have been however looking at JavaScript Vector based objects for rounded corners and maybe gradients but this seems to be a dead end cause the user would have a menu that would rely on JavaScript and LOTS of market up to support the vector objects.

You could generate the images via PHP or some other server side system. I don't know much about JS vector objects, but you can most certainly create some images using PHP, even rounded corners I'm sure.

[ubh]

Hmmm I have never used GD Library - PHP before. I would like to dig my hands into this. To be honest though, if you open this can of worms and you quickly become a image editing tool/creator as well as a menu builder..


AWESOME!!!


project.Mariah is in a whole a project that provides users with only the best and useful tools across all OS and browsers... sooo image editing sound like it right up its ally.

I will certainly be looking into this much further and try to product something via Ajax with the GD Lib.

Thanks again m8.

[bini87]

The CSS was getting parse errors because of styles with missing property's from fields a users has not filled out yet.After tweaking a few things the CSS Menu Builder is now producing W3C standard XHTML1.0 markup and CSS level 2.1...Let me know cause I want to clear up these issues before I release Menu Builder 1.2 that's going to have color picker support and hopefully image support, more hover capability's and sub menu features.