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Thomas Brunt Posts: 6109 Joined: 6/6/1998 From: St. Matthews SC USA Status: offline	css dropdown menu? - 12/23/2005 10:30:18 I've been installing css dropdown menus on a lot of custom projects lately. The menu is an include page that contains nested unordered lists of descriptive text links. The include page looks like a complete site map when the css is not applied to it. I always thought that this would be great spider food, but I recently had a customer complain that all of that code would dilute the effectiveness of the content on each page of her site. It's just unordered list and href tags. The code does appear on each page, but I could easily turn it into a script to hide it. My guess is that she's better off for me to leave the code. Am I right? t


Reflect Posts: 4769 From: USA Status: offline	RE: css dropdown menu? - 12/23/2005 15:05:02 Well, no. I always design with getting the opening paragraph as close to the body tag as possible. If the menu is prior to that I would rearrange using <div>s. If you can not do that then I would outsource it to an external JS file. However on the flip side of the coin, with the site in my sig I do the same thing. I use includes for the menu navigation. However I push this down below my content so the spider/bot hits the content first, then gets more anchor text to feed the following linked page. Now the bot of course read the include as part of the page. I "stuff" (loose term) those includes. All nav links are mostly keyword phrases that I use on the landing page. Think anchor text . Take care, Brian _____________________________ (in reply to Thomas Brunt)


Andy from Spain Posts: 922 From: Ipswich Status: offline	RE: css dropdown menu? - 12/23/2005 15:24:11 Hi I think what you would replace it with is a major factor, having some links at the top of the page with decent anchor text sounds good to me - replacing it with javascript or whatever might not be. Brian's plan sounds like a good one! Andy _____________________________ Ecommerce software \| Website templates (in reply to Reflect)


Tailslide Posts: 6051 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: online	RE: css dropdown menu? - 12/24/2005 3:00:44 That's the beauty of CSS of course - you can have pretty much whatever source order you want and use CSS to position the items on the page. _____________________________ "My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it" Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Blood, Sweat & Rust - A Land Rover restoration project (in reply to Andy from Spain)


Thomas Brunt Posts: 6109 Joined: 6/6/1998 From: St. Matthews SC USA Status: offline	RE: css dropdown menu? - 12/26/2005 10:34:57 Good advice. Thanks. t (in reply to Tailslide)