Help with menus

Charly

I'm nearly finished with all the tweaks to my new site and need some help with a couple of menu questions.

1. In my main menu I have Galleries. This is set up on a page to display the galleries how I want. With them not being in Folders is there any way to get a drop down list from the menu Galleries link? Like Information has? I want folder names as main and flyout gallery names, but retain using the page I have. For instance:

Galleries
Travel .....Europe
..............Europe ~ B&W
Architecture......Architecture
.......................Architecture ~ B&W
and so on

2. On my About Photographer page. Is there a way to add a small, short, vertical left side menu, but still keep the main menu at the top?

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

beardedgit

Charly wrote: »

1. In my main menu I have Galleries. This is set up on a page to display the galleries how I want. With them not being in Folders is there any way to get a drop down list from the menu Galleries link? Like Information has? I want folder names as main and flyout gallery names, but retain using the page I have. For instance:

Galleries
Travel .....Europe
..............Europe ~ B&W
Architecture......Architecture
.......................Architecture ~ B&W
and so on

Look at the top-left of the SM header and you should see a "?" in a circle in a square. That's where Help is, and a quick search for the word "menu" brings up 69 items, this one is at the top of the list: http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1222523-customization-how-do-i-make-a-navigation-menu-

Charly

beardedgit wrote: »

Look at the top-left of the SM header and you should see a "?" in a circle in a square. That's where Help is, and a quick search for the word "menu" brings up 69 items, this one is at the top of the list: http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1222523-customization-how-do-i-make-a-navigation-menu-

Well duh... lol Sorry to have bothered with something so simple. That's what I get for looking around here and not the SM help. lol

beardedgit

Charly wrote: »

Well duh... lol Sorry to have bothered with something so simple. That's what I get for looking around here and not the SM help. lol

We're here to help each other, if you get stuck with what the help pages say (they're not always accurate or easy for non-techies) or if you need a custom-job then just holler and we'll try to sort you out

ChancyRat

Charly wrote: »

I'm nearly finished with all the tweaks to my new site and need some help with a couple of menu questions.

1. In my main menu I have Galleries. This is set up on a page to display the galleries how I want. With them not being in Folders is there any way to get a drop down list from the menu Galleries link? Like Information has? I want folder names as main and flyout gallery names, but retain using the page I have. For instance:

Galleries
Travel .....Europe
..............Europe ~ B&W
Architecture......Architecture
.......................Architecture ~ B&W
and so on

2. On my About Photographer page. Is there a way to add a small, short, vertical left side menu, but still keep the main menu at the top?

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

FYI the left sidebar menu only goes one level deep. Your sample has two.
SM said if there are a lot of user requests for more layers, the might add them, but I don't know if a formal feature request has been submitted.

ChancyRat

Another aspects of left menus is that some people have asked whether a folder can be "open" as a default. Meaning a viewer would not have to click the plus sign to view sub-contents. I have not seen code that would do that.

You could manually add sub-links instead of relying on "open folder contents", but then you run up against the limit of one layer deep.

Charly

beardedgit wrote: »

We're here to help each other, if you get stuck with what the help pages say (they're not always accurate or easy for non-techies) or if you need a custom-job then just holler and we'll try to sort you out

Thanks! That worked like a charm and now I have my "main menu" the way I want it! Any chance you could help me figure out how to use the left menu only on my About page? I understand I can pull a Menu block into it, which is great. But I want to do a bit more with it, which I didn't clarify. My apologies!

I'd like a left or perhaps lower menu that I can use to link to awards I've received. I'd like to use icons from the presenters that will have links to the URL I select. Does that make sense?

ChancyRat wrote: »

FYI the left sidebar menu only goes one level deep. Your sample has two.

Whoops that is for my main menu not the left menu I wish to build.

ChancyRat

Sorry, I missed this. Are you facing the issue of, the leftbar you created, is on the about page, because you added it to Entire Site, or All Folders, or All galleries, but since you want a different leftbar on this page, you need to remove the first leftbar. How do you accomplish this?

I haven't tried to work this out myself, but I played with one gallery, and I see I can't remove the topnav on it because that is on Entire Site. Someone else may have a better idea but I think the only way to do this is to change the entire Theme for the About page. That would mean you would have to duplicate all of the customization on your main site for it, except for what you don't want, e.g., the leftbar.