Should I get version 5?

[matthewmaude]

I am currently using version 3 which has been fine for my needs - apart from it only working on the school intranet, not the internet http://www.plantbrk.bham.sch.uk/science - think it is a server problem.

three questions:
1. Does version 5 allow me to use the menu to create the individual submenus in the site map here: http://www.plantbrk.bham.sch.uk/science and here http://www.plantbrk.bham.sch.uk/science/ks3.htm whilst still having them in a top horizontal main menu?
2. Is there anyone who's got a site with sub menus in tables I could look at?
3. How do you ask for a free licence - I only just noticed I live in the same city as Milonic - surely that's an advantage!?

[bobwill]

The answer to question 3 can be found at these links.

http://www.milonic.co.uk/nplicense.php

http://milonic.com/licfaq.php

[kevin3442]

1. Does version 5 allow me to use the menu to create the individual submenus in the site map here: http://www.plantbrk.bham.sch.uk/science and here http://www.plantbrk.bham.sch.uk/science/ks3.htm whilst still having them in a top horizontal main menu?

You certainly could put menus in your table-based site map like you currently have, although you wouldn't really need to use tables to position them. In this question, it's useful to realize that there is no such thing as a "sub"menu in the Milonic world. You have menus that are set to be alwaysvisible and menus that aren't. Those that don't have alwaysvisible turned on are typically opened by other menu items and therefore serve as submenus. In your case, in one use, the menus would be alwaysvisible and positioned to form a site map. In another use, the same menus would have alwaysvisible turned off and would instead be called as submenus from some main menu items. These two uses are mutually exclusive with the same set of menus.

Here's what would happen. Suppose "submenu1" was currently visible in its intended position within the site map. Then, the user mouses over a main menu item that is supposed to open "submenu1" beneath the main menu. Depending on how you set things up, the "submenu1" would either remain open in its current location (stay stuck in the site map) or would move from its site map location to a new location beneath the main menu (no longer part of the site map). The governing rule in this case is that a single menu cannot occupy two locations at once. To do what you want, you would have to duplicate the submenu definitions: one set for use in the alwaysvisible site map and a second set to open from the main menu bar.

Hope that helps,

Kevin