I'm putting together a website for the company I work for. You can see the test site I've thrown together, http://ngtsi.ntworks.org. If you roll your mouse over the image, they will flip thu a series of photos of the datacenter. But the question I have is for the navigation menu in the left frame.
if you click on "Service Stats", you will see that it takes over the current window, and displays the service statistics page. Under this, you will see service stats for our different customers, MHMR, TEA, TWCC, etc.
What I've been asked to do is to integrate a menu into the left hand frame, so that when you click "Service Stats", everything below Service Stats on the left menu (Customers, Contact, Documentation) move down, and make way for a popdown menu that would appear.
This menu would consist of a list of our customers, MHMR, TWCC, etc. and when you click one of those, it will display only their stats in the right frame.
The left menu will remain with the customers, allowing you to select another one. When you are finished browsing the service stats, you can click "Service Stats" again to "close" the menu, collapsing it, and bringing "Customers, Contact, Documentation back up underneath "service stats".
I've seen java coding that will bring down a popdown menu, but it was only for a navigation bar going horizontally across a top frame, not a left hand vertical nav bar. How would you make it so that it "pushes" down the rest of the frame, and when you close the menu, it pulls the rest back up?
Basically, my boss saw this on Microsoft's Windows Update site, and he then saw that it was possible and wants this on our website. I tried looking at the source of the microsoft site, and it was ungodly, I couldn't make heads or tails of it.
Can someone at least point me in the right direction, so I can get started on constructing this menu? or does anyone else know of a similarly constructed website that I could possible examine the code of and see if I can extrapolate an idea? or a more specific forum with experts willing to help ?
thanks
if you click on "Service Stats", you will see that it takes over the current window, and displays the service statistics page. Under this, you will see service stats for our different customers, MHMR, TEA, TWCC, etc.
What I've been asked to do is to integrate a menu into the left hand frame, so that when you click "Service Stats", everything below Service Stats on the left menu (Customers, Contact, Documentation) move down, and make way for a popdown menu that would appear.
This menu would consist of a list of our customers, MHMR, TWCC, etc. and when you click one of those, it will display only their stats in the right frame.
The left menu will remain with the customers, allowing you to select another one. When you are finished browsing the service stats, you can click "Service Stats" again to "close" the menu, collapsing it, and bringing "Customers, Contact, Documentation back up underneath "service stats".
I've seen java coding that will bring down a popdown menu, but it was only for a navigation bar going horizontally across a top frame, not a left hand vertical nav bar. How would you make it so that it "pushes" down the rest of the frame, and when you close the menu, it pulls the rest back up?
Basically, my boss saw this on Microsoft's Windows Update site, and he then saw that it was possible and wants this on our website. I tried looking at the source of the microsoft site, and it was ungodly, I couldn't make heads or tails of it.
Can someone at least point me in the right direction, so I can get started on constructing this menu? or does anyone else know of a similarly constructed website that I could possible examine the code of and see if I can extrapolate an idea? or a more specific forum with experts willing to help ?
thanks
