What’s on the menu?

Yeah, I really just typed that. But, it is a very valid question if you think of it right? I mean, at first glance you sometimes can’t tell just what is on the menu because of the wonder that are drop downs. A space saver and organization tool that many menus employ to help us find just what is on the menu in a friendly timely fashion. The question then becomes, how does one emulate this behavior? When I first began working in web development I remember searching like crazy to find out how to make a drop down navigation menu, and so I am now writing my own for, hopefully, others to search like crazy for!

So this tutorial is how to create a simple drop down menu using jQuery. Alright let’s drop down in and get going.

So this is a short post I am making as a minor addition to my last tutorial on Creating an Ajax Contact Form with jQuery. There was a great question comment left that I did not think to address, and I think it would be helpful to others so this addendum is to answer that.

Answer what?

Ajax is cool. I mean, as long as you use it when practical and necessary, the benefits both visual and experience wise are very evident. The days of submitting a form and being sent to a new page just to have to navigate back to where you were are passed, and sending information without page reloads is a nice touch to add to your site. You do however want to make sure you are not “Ajaxing” your entire site, but hey this is just a contact form, so let’s go make a cool one!

I am excited to launch this new section on my site today, the Freebies have arrived! I spent a lot of time building this first addition to my free section, a complete HTML/CSS site template with a ton of jQuery enhancements. Totally free!

Some Feature Highlights

• Six Main Pages
• Product Listing Page
• Single Blog Post Page
• Featured Content Slider
• Animated Sidebar Links
• Functional Ajax Contact Form
• Home Page Panel Slider
• Lightbox Photos
• Tabbed Animated Like Box
• Social Networking List
• Cycle Slideshow

Now that seems like a lot of fun to play with. I hope that someone finds this helpful, useful or at least fun, I would love to make more.

I know, the pictures here show some sweet stuff, but you wanna play with it I know, so click below for the demo!

Please, download it, modify it, use it, whatever you want! Tell a friend, leave comments, let’s go!

See it in action!
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A new beta web app was quietly launched last night. Quietly I say because it could very well be the calm before the storm. As I think and hope you agree, that this is the kind of fun app we love to have on retainer.

Now Twitter is beyond a social annoyance tool, the networking options both social and business alike are off the charts and toss in the potential friendships made with every new follower, and the benefits grow further! But, what happens when the magic number begins to drop? You see your follower count inching lower wondering what is happening? Were they just bots being cleaned out? Did they not like my content or do I simply smell? Well ladies and gentelmen, wonder no more!