Suggestions neede: Menu System

[akulion]

hi all

well now my site has gotten crammed with way too many features and as a result the menu which SMF comes with is inadequate to accomodate them all for a screen res of 1024x786 (which is the optimal viewing size for my site)

What menu items do I have?

Well on the site u wont see all of them in the SMf menu but if u click on the tabbed thingie present there undr "site menu" u will get an idea of what all I would preferrably have on my menu:

-Home (takes u to the main page)

-Portal (takes u to TP main page)

-Forum (takes u to smf)

-P2P Galleries (gallery maintained by me officially)

-User Galleries (gallery for users using gallery2+smf integration by oldiesman)

-Articles (takes u to my custom designed .com site which is how it all stated)

-Arcade (takes u to smf arcade)

-Links Directory (smf links mod)

-Muslim Pals (osdate by tufat.com)

-Kids Club (custom designed kids club running another SMF)

-Calendar (built in smf calender)

-Downloads ( download manager)

-Media (takes u to mkportal media mod)

-Quran Tutors (a unique tool i designed in flash for teaching people recitation)

-Member map (google map mod)

-P2P shop (smf shop mod)

-Blogs (takes u to user blogs, currently mkportal, in the future feling blogs)

-Chat (flash chat)

-Wisdom Cookies ( a fun little thing I made)

-Candle 4 Peace (something I copied of webshots)

-Nasheeds (islamic songs)

-Mobile (mobile phone apps + stuff )

-E-Books ( free downloadable e-books)

-Wallpapers (seperate from the gallery - not active yet, only cenetered on wallpapers)

-Jokes (not active yet but a whole humour section)

-Islamic Games ( custom games i purchased and made in flash)

-Help (smf default help menu)

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So now you see my dilemma?

and thats not all in the future ill probably be adding even more stuff!!

How can I resolve this?

Will smf allow multi level menus?

Or do I need to replace the menu in SMf altogether?

I would prefer to keep the smf menu..but if there is no option then please let me know some alternatives

thanks.

aku

[G6Cad]

The only thing i can think of is to create a block and use it to link to your site content.
Another good thing about that is that if you add another theme it just import the block there and the job with adding a lot of buttons and arrays are gone

[akulion]

yes thats the best plan yet

im also looking into incorporating a DTHML menu in all my themes...like a cool drop down one which will make poeple go OOOHHHHH :O OOOOOO

but thats a tougher thingie that the menu at top

I also wanted to ask...if i remove the menu display array from the template wont that also remove all the links for me for admin panel ?

[Techdomain]

put in a drop-down box for a lot of the add-ons (ie the things people dont click every visit/day)

http://www.techdomain.com.au/index.php second block on the right type thing. I have heard that it can behave a little wierd in IE at times though.

[akulion]

i put something like that on my site before but to be honest i dont like it very much its too plain but thanks very much for the suggestion anyways

I like flashy stuff (if u havent already guesed lol)

I am thinking from G6's suggestion maybe ill just have a longgggg block with all the menu items in it!

Or im thinking maybe use one of the menus from dhtml drive..

[Techdomain]

flashy stuff? why not make a flash block... have tabbed flash menu's.

or you could use a toolbox style menu:
for example: http://forums.ocwizard.com/ then click the toolbox link at the top.

[akulion]

i really like these menu systems...now to figure out how to incorporate them into my site

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/openmenu/index.htm

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/jimmenu/index.htm

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/hvmenu/index.htm

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/sm/index.htm

[akulion]

OMG i did it

I got this menu to work

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/hvmenu/index.htm

simply paste the code into a scriptbox

upload the files to the forum folder and ur set to go

the menu is still hidden on my site until i configure it

[Techdomain]

I like it... I like it a lot!

[iwyen]

If you like flashy menus, take a look at http://www.milonic.com. I used to use it on SMF 1.0.7. I stopped using cos' when I switched to RC2, I had no time to look at RC2 theming.

Otherwise, you can add main contents to the horizontal menu and the rest, vertically in a block. I put all members options (profile, pm, etc. in a customised user block).