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I own a license to Milonic and like your menu.
My site is growing, and I want to build a menu system that is easy to use and has a lot of info in it.

I've looked at some mega drop down menus that offer columns and really like them.
Here is a popular example: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/exa ... dropdowns/
Some other professional looking ones are here:
http://www.shop.puma.com/ (I like this one)
http://www.rei.com/ (very clean and a tremendous number of links)

I know you have a multi column sample listed, but I don't think what you offer will do what I am looking for.
I'd like to be able to control the number of elements in each column.

Do you have any other multi-column examples?

Thanks
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Hi,

Webplugs, our new menu product, can do Mega Menus.

If you let me have your menu data I'll be able to send you a demo.

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Thanks Andy, I had signed up for the Webplugs beta, but the link I have to download no longer works.
Are you still letting people into the beta?
I don't really have all of the menu data yet, I just want to be able to start building a new menu for the site.

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I decided to remove the Webplugs list as too many people didn't quite understand how it worked.

Webplugs changes daily so a download from a few weeks ago will be out of date today. I'll see if I can get an auto system going.

At the moment I'm busy working on a showcase website using Webplugs but I'm happy that Webplugs is almost releasable so no reason why you can't use it.

I will get a demo Mega Menu Download published for you as soon as I can.
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Thanks Andy, that would be terrific.
Not to be pushy, but any idea when? This week, this month...?

Thanks again.
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Hoping for maybe later today or tomorrow.

If I've not got back to you by this time tomorrow, please give me a nudge.

And don't worry about being pushy, I really do need reminding these days, head's like a sieve at the moment :D - WAY too much going on.
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Terrific support, thanks Andy!
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As requested, gentle nudge applied to site admin. ;)
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Sorry for the delay.

I'm working on this right now and really hope to have something for you soon.
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Thanks again Andy, sorry to nudge again, but any idea when this might be released?
Not to be a pain, but I it’s going to be a while, then I’ll need to look for another solution.
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No worries - sorry for the delay.

Download links are as follows:

http://www.webplugs.net/webplugs-latest.zip
http://www.webplugs.net/webplugs-latest.tar.gz
http://www.webplugs.net/webplugs-latest.tar.bz2

Download one of the above (they are all the same files) Then extract and look in demos/html-drop-down-mega-menu.html

There's 2 styles, one is Puma, the other Racoon

Let me know what you think.
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The megamenu is perfect!
Thank you
My preference is Puma, you did a really great job with this one.

I noticed a slight shift of the menu items on hover, I'll take a look in the css for that.

Did you say in the past that this would have a GUI to build the menus? That would make it perfect!

I have an active Milonic license, am I allowed to use this js on a live site?
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OK, I played a little more, here is a test that will change before I even submit this post :).
http://www.pathlabtalk.com/site_menu/te ... -menu.html#

What files aside from the webplugs.js file in the webplugs folder do I need to upload? I noticed when I only uploaded the webplugs.js file, many elements didn't work.

When you view the demo I posted, you'll see Extras on the far right. Is there a way to have the sub-menu offset to the left when the parent item is positioned to the right and the drop down would cause a left to right scroll?

Again, this is just what I wanted, thank you!
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Hi Andy,

I am trying to use this menu in a vBulletin forum. The li seems to be styled in the forum and i overwriting the styling for the menu.
Can you offer a css suggestion to correct this issue?

Thanks, Cliff
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