Horizontal Menu in Header

firelight · #1 07-24-2006, 08:56 AM

Hi, I have a quick question regarding the implementation of a horizontal menu in the header.

IБ─≥m planning on creating a simple menu in the header. Because IБ─≥m not a programmer, I can only do it by manually coding all the links for all the categories that I have.
I do plan on using if/then statements so I can display and highlight category links accordingly.
My questions is, if I have letБ─≥s say about 50 categories, would this slow down or take up a lot of resources when I implement 50 if/then statements?

Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kristiaan.

balinor · #2 07-24-2006, 10:47 AM

There is a nice horizontal flyout menu in the Custom Mods forum. There is also a mod in there that highlights the current category...only one {if} statement necessary.

firelight · #3 07-24-2006, 10:55 AM

Thanks Padraic,

I will have a look. I've tried many different options so far and my conclusion towards JavaScript is that it is not SEO friendly at all.
Remember now that I consider myself still a newbie.

balinor · #4 07-24-2006, 10:59 AM

There is a fine line between Search Engine Optimization and Customer Optimization. 50 links is pretty confusing for a customer, and a site map will take care of the search engine links. The menu I'm talking about is mostly CSS anyway. There is also a pure CSS version here:

http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/

firelight · #5 07-24-2006, 11:05 AM

I hope that you're right about the sitemap taking care of the search engine links because Google sitemaps is spitting out weard results right now.
Of course I have to mention that I had the DSEFU mod installed by John and a complete new and different robots.txt was uploaded.

balinor · #6 07-24-2006, 11:08 AM

I mean both a Google Sitemap and an html sitemap.

firelight · #7 07-24-2006, 11:15 AM

Yes, I do have both; a Google Sitemaps and a dynamically generated sitemap. Do you think it would be better to use like GSiteCrawler to have a pure html sitemap generated? Of course a sitemap generated with GSiteCrawler still needs some manual touch-ups to make it look more organized.

I know, I'm getting completely off topic now but I greatly appreciate your input.
Thank you very much.

balinor · #8 07-24-2006, 11:16 AM

As long as the links are there (and they point to the DSEFU links, not the php links) you are fine.