I'd really like to use the house of nuke menu as a dynamic menu. I've changed the setting to dynamic but I think I have to remove the list items. You have great tutorials on the static menu but I can find nothing for the dynamic. Could you steer me in the right direction or just give tips on how one would start to create the pull out menu.

thanks,

Hello,

Well I have just created 3 horizontal menus in the HouseMenu for the next issue, but none of them are dynamic.

There is
1) root menu static
2) root menu and sub-menu static (sub-menu just displays for the root menu item that is selected)
3) no.2 layout but using images for the backgrounds to create buttons

I looked at creating a dynamic CSS menu but couldn't find a decent solution. The HouseMenu dynamic menu skins that come with HouseMenu do not work in IE7 so I looked around the net for other solutions that could be implemented while operating the HouseMenu in static mode. But, again none of them were a good enough solution. They all had compromises such as they use Javascript and if Javascript is not enabled on the users machine they can not view the menu.

So I'm afraid I haven't found a decent solution to this yet. Even other CSS menus that sell on Snowcovered, such as the 'SEOMenu CSS Menu' for $75 do not work in IE7 correctly (from looking at their current website examples).

It is something I would avoid, or develop a menu as detailed in the no.2 example, you can see a live example of what I mean here: http://www.thecity.org/ (it's currently down at the time of posting, but check the link later on)

This is not a DNN site, but it gives you an idea as I haven't uploaded the new menus to a live site yet.

I will keep looking for solutions and if you find one let us know,

Thanks,

Thanks Lee for your response.

I'm really looking for a vertical menu that shows 'pullout' submenu on rollover. Would you suggest I give up the HouseMenu and use the SolPartMenu?

Much appreciated!

What was I thinking I handled it with css.
Sorry Lee. .....
Keep those tutorials rolling in they are really great!!

Hello,

So did you manage to get a dynamic menu working correctly? Have you tested it in IE7? Perhaps you would like to share the code if it is fully working?

Cheers,

No unfortunately I have limited time to spend with this project to get dynamic menu working. But I will have one day and will return....

thanks again!

Getting back to this menu. Has anyone managed to get the static menu with a pull out menu in CSS working with IE?

I would much appreciate some direction to have menu displayed in all browsers. The easy way out is use lists underneath but need to get 'pullout' submenu working in IE. BTW, it does work in all other browsers.

Much appreciated!

By 'pull out' menu, do you mean a dynamic menu which displays like Solpart?

Or do you mean a menu such as: http://www.thecity.org/

What is interesting is that even for a static horizontal menu I discovered that IE did not play nicely, I did find a solution to this though without using hacks.

I'm just in the process of doing the videos for the horizontal menus with House of Nuke, but none of them cover a dynamic styled horizontal menu.

Do you have a URL so that we can look at the code?

Thanks,

Thanks Lee. By pull out I mean similiar to the (i think) solpart menu that you are using on your site only mine is vertical.

Regarding viewing my website, I'd love to share but that's another can of worms. I was working great with dotnetnuke on an iinternal server then I did all the proper backups and restores on a new server but I haven't been able to get the site working. I had a problem using an IP addresses as a HTTP alias but couldn't get that to work. So I thought maybe the problem was that it didn't have dotnetnuke installed on that server intially so I'm busy doing that right now. Here's the IP 209.217.91.7 address but at the moment it's forwarded to my internal server which I need to remove.

I've also got a problem with the SMTP mail that I couldn't get working on my internal site but hope will sort out on the live site. I have the server set as anonymous and have put in the username and passwords in according to server but can't get mail working, although the feedback form says the mail was sent. This problem I've obviously delayed as I need to first get the site working.

Even though I need help now I really look forward to hearing your upcoming horizontal tutorials, they have been a great help!

To continue...
the site is what appears to be working now. I unzipped dotnetnuke. But there's some funny things happening. Now when I try and edit text I get a blank content screen. The top translation is where I'm editing so that disappears also.

The menu by the way is not the one I want that's what I need to change to a solpart or have a flyout submenu on hover.

And the mail although it says it's sent is not received.

I desperately need help now...sorry..

On the new live site, I have 2 problems.

1) on the main page I can't seem to load a fresh skin. I've tried to upload a new skin in 2 ways the first using install/install.aspx?mode=installresources. but although it tells me it did it the page/skin doesn't reflect the new changes. the one major change is the login is underneath the grey menu. I've also tried to use the upload new skins but I get the error below.

2) I can't seem to edit anything. Thinking maybe I have some corruption I've even tried creating a new module. It creates just fine until I come to editing. I get a blank content screen.

I need to more forward urgently and don't know which way to turn now as I can't even do simple edits.

Did I create the new site correctly?
I (ftp) uploaded the entire site backing up and restoring the database. as that didn't work fully I unzipped dotnetnuke straight on that server and corrected the config files.

Any help/direction would be apprecitated.
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Error: File Upload is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Access to the path 'D:\Instantelcom\Portals\0\Skins\thumb_INS2PaneDefault' is denied. ---> System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'D:\Instantelcom\Portals\0\Skins\thumb_INS2PaneDefault' is denied. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at System.IO.Directory.InternalCreateDirectory(String fullPath, String path, DirectorySecurity dirSecurity) at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path, DirectorySecurity directorySecurity) at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.SkinController.UploadSkin(String RootPath, String SkinRoot, String SkinName, Stream objInputStream) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.FileSystem.WebUpload.cmdUpload_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in D:\Instantelcom\Admin\Files\WebUpload.ascx.vb:line 466 --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Hello,

I'm not sure what is causing this. -

It could be due to the way you have installed DNN.

It could also be your folder permissions on your server. - Do you have the correct read / write permissions set within your hosting provider? If these are not set correctly then you will come across all sorts of errors, including problems with installing skins.

For your installation. Can you clarify? Have you created a localhost installation and then created a .bak file of the SQL database and installed this to your server & then uploaded all of your DNN files from your localhost installation?

and then as this didn't work replaced the DNN files with a fresh DNN installation with a corrected web.config.

- This will cause problems as DNN makes alterations to files while it installs.

I would suggest trying to install a fresh copy of DNN to your host with a fresh database & ensure that everything is working correctly in this version.

Then create a portal template of your localhost site & install that template to your live hosted site. - Full details of this are here: http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/ta...fault.aspx

It's important that you check everything is working correctly on your live site as once you have spent a month working on it with a problematic installation there will be no way of going back and trying to fix it.

Thanks,

thanks Lee,
sorry delay, I was hoping to sort out my menu problem first. (I tried to use [SOLPARTMENU] as you use but change it do a horizontal display but I run into problems with Firefox and Netscape not displaying the dropdown menu. If I switch to [HOUSEMENU] I can't get the drop down to work on IE7. Can you assist me on this step before I export the data to a fresh installation.

thanks once again!

Hello,

As I said previously I have not found a reliable solution yet for using the [HOUSEMENU] with a dynamic horizontal menu.

But, I have literally just completed the page for issue 12 for the HouseMenu horizontal CSS menu tutorials. - I will give you access before the official release:

How to create Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu

Hope this helps you out, thanks,

Thanks so much. Went through the tutorials. Wow! what an ingenious way of handing double menus. I need to look at the code closer to modify to veritical but I will still have the same problem with IE until Tim does his majic. Correct?

Can anyone offer an alternative menu to use that offers a vertical menu with a submenu display on hover that covers all browsers.

I reseached your list Lee but none of thos offer a second submenu display.

Again, thanks for the great tutorials. There's no better way of leaving dotnetnuke!

Sorry correction

No better way of learning dotnetnuke. Dnncreative.com has clearly been my life saver.

 

He he - Glad you've found it useful and that you are not leaving DNN!

The menus that are in the tutorial work in all browsers from IE5.01 through to IE7.

If you are looking for a vertical menu that implements the same strategy as the tutorials, check out the menu on http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/ta...fault.aspx

Thanks,

Gave up on the housemenu with the side hover vertical menu. I got a third party menu but now how do I still include the admin and host menus on the site?
thanks in advance!

I would use this workaround:

Add a new page into your menu at the root level that is only available to administrators of the website.

Call it 'admin'

On this new 'admin' page set it to use a different skin. - Within the different skin, use a different menu system that displays all of the admin / host menus.

- I have used this method on the horizontal css menu tutorial (issue 12), where on the admin page i use a vertical menu from the free simple red leaf css skin.

So it displays all of the admin and host menus.

Thanks,