Jean Ross Summary
Karl Loren Summary
Chemotherapy
Pain Killers
New Life
Heart Rate
Radiation
Tiredness
Exercise
Eye Sight
Out Of Breath Panting
Balance
Weight Management
Food Cravings
Niacin Flush
Hubbard Detoxification
Vibrant Life Home
Blood Pressure
Talk To Jean
Table Of Contents
Detoxification Home
Write To Karl

As of now I prefer the Vertical List with Slide Down and Open Right Option, #1 below.

Menu #1

 

Jean Ross
Karl Loren
Radiation
Toxins
Addiction
Weight Management
Exercise
Diet
Detox Program
Home Page

Jean
Ross
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Karl
Loren
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This is the heading for the Body Text

This is body text in a nested table. The table on the left contains the menu. This table, on the right, contains the body of the text for this part of the page.

This inner table would expand vertically if additional text were added, as would the left table expand vertically if there were more menu items added.

There is probably some way of fixing the vertical length of the right nested table so that any further text added beyond the left table boundary would not fit?

In any event, it should be easy to see that the right table is filling up, the bottom of this table would be extending below the bottom of the left table, causing imbalance. When you see that just start adding more text in the area below the outer table.

Thus, the Design Notes are added, below, outside this right hand table -- and the body text inside the table shows how this table could be filled up. These tables show borders -- they could be elminated to make the page look less cluttered.

Vertical Drop Down & Slide Right Menu Design Notes: My pages in this section are all set to have an indent of 60 pixels on the left (and right). That is the position of the above sample outer table with the left nested table on that margin, showing the menu. I would probably like this menu position to be used at that margin, but it might look better moved outside of the page margin, all the way to the left margin. I'd like you to try one like that. With this option the outer nest table could have a left border at the edge of the screen rather than the edge of the page setting.

The prefered size of a vertical menu would be on "one screen view" so that no scrolling is necessary to see all the items. I've not yet found a way to make the cells smaller, etc. The Open Cube program probably has adjustments that can be made in menu features. Ideally the top of the menu will be at the top of the screen and for "most viewers" the entire menu will be visible on the first screen shot.

Due to different settings on a browser some people might see more, others less, of the same menu.

Here are the "visible links" for each of the nine items that slide DOWN for the first opening and then open to the right when clicked for the next opening:

  1. Jean Ross
    1. Summary
    2. Jean's First Detox
    3. Jean's Cancer
      1. Cancer generally
      2. Cancer diagnosis
      3. Alternative remedies
      4. Cancer treatment
      5. Chemotherapy
      6. Radiation
      7. Hospice
      8. Surgery
      9. Tests
      10. Final Medical Results
      11. Continuing Alternatives
    4. Hubbard Detox
      1. "Turn On" of symptoms
      2. Dramatic events
      3. Final Condition
    5. Phone Jean
  2. Karl Loren
    1. Summary
      1. Age
      2. Weight
      3. Fitness
      4. Golden Years
      5. Complete Story
    2. Health Improvements
      1. Eyesight
      2. Skin
      3. Insect Bites
      4. Heart Health
      5. Blood Pressure
    3. Mental changes
      1. Future plans
      2. Productivity
      3. Enthusiasm
      4. TV
    4. Fitness
      1. Limberness
      2. Range of Motion
      3. Hiking
    5. Balance
      1. Dizziness
      2. Uneven floor
      3. Eyes closed
    6. Exercise
      1. Requirement
      2. Discipline
      3. Forms
      4. Kung Fu
      5. Treadmill
      6. Polar Heart Monitor
      7. After Detox
      8. Ideal type
      9. Ideal schedule
    7. Breathing
      1. Heart Rate
      2. Nose/Mouth
      3. Slow/Even
    8. Kung Fu
      1. Web Site
      2. Black belt
    9. Write To Karl
  3. Radiation
    1. Background
    2. Sunburn
      1. Bathing suit
      2. From childhood
    3. Radiation Treatment
      1. Intended effect
      2. Actual effect
      3. Mental Effect
    4. Atomic testing
      1. Atomospher
      2. How long
    5. Atomic blast
      1. Simple prevention
      2. Simple remedy
  4. Toxins
    1. Background
    2. Government protection
    3. Street Drugs
    4. Psychiatric drugs
    5. Medical Drugs
    6. Chemotherapy
    7. Industrial Toxins
    8. Food Additives
    9. Other
  5. Addiction
    1. Street Drugs
    2. Pain killers
    3. Alcohol
    4. Food cravings
    5. Other
  6. Weight Management
    1. Exercise
    2. Balance
    3. Cleansing
    4. Oil Exchange
  7. Exercise
    1. Heart Rate
    2. Breathing
    3. Posture
    4. Ideal schedule
    5. Ideal type
    6. Karl Exercise Diary
  8. Diet
    1. During Detox
    2. After Detox
  9. Hubbard Detox
    1. Referral: Call Jean
    2. Niacin
    3. Locations
    4. Medical Approval
    5. Cost

 


 

Drop Down Menu #2

Karl
Loren
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Heading1
Heading2
Heading3
Jean
Ross
Image
Heading4
Heading5
Heading6
Heading 7
Heading8
Heading9
Heading10
Heading11
Heading12

Image Menu Design Note:

The above menu gives 12 possible headings -- presumaby only the bottom line of three (blue) could be "drop down?" This might be OK for me. If this model is used then when one of the blue cells drops down it should immediately occupy a wider cell than the "mother cell." In other words, if the "Heading10" cell is 80 pixels wide, then the width of the drop-down cells should be about 100 pixels. Any further cells that would "open up" to the right or left should, likewise, have cell widths of 100 pixels or so.

Off hand, I do not think any "open to the right cells" should contain any more cells that open to the right (or left). That would be too complex for my taste.

I have not been able to find how to make cell widths fixed width with DW. I would rather have fixed widths and then adjust the number of characters in a link to fit rather than have the cell expand to allow longer links. I would rather have all menus appear with the same size cells. When I see this being done on the web it appears that the cells are long enough for virtually any link width -- and the shorter links simply take up less of the width. That would suggest that there should be TWO columns of links in the center of the menu rather than the THREE that are shown. Each of the two would then be wide enough. But that still seems a non-optimum menu. If there is some better way to combine an image as part of the menu on every page I would like that. It may be that a vertical menu would allow images to fit more easily.

 

Drop Down Menu #3

Karl Loren
Jean Ross
Data
References

Non-Image Menu Design Notes: My pages are all set to have an indent of 60 pixels, left and right. I would like to keep this to make the page look more neat. This means that the menu length would not be as long on as on most web sites. Thus, five cells in the menu seems too large and I've chosen four.

The above four links will do for the main items.

 

 

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