vBA CMPS Cleaner Site Navigation - CSS Driven Rollovers

vBAdvanced Cleaner Site Navigation Module - CSS Driven Rollovers

What it does: Replace your default vBAdvanced navigation pane with a cross-browser, CSS driven rollover menu.

Time to install: 10 Minutes
Tested: IE, Firefox, Maxthon, Opera
Difficulty: Easy
Templates: 2
CSS Edit: 1
Demo: http://www.sevenstring.org

I wasn't happy with the stock look of the vBAdvanced portal navigation. It's very plain, and I personally like rollovers (if done properly) for adding a little bit of organic movement to static pages.

Here's the default CMPS on the left, and my module on the right. The screenshots don't really do it justice, for the full effect check out my website linked above. I am using it both for navigation and for the "Artist Reviews & Interviews" portal templates.

Default: This Mod:


Step 1: Create the New Module

AdminCP -> vBA CMPS -> Add Module -> Template

Module Title: Site Navigation
Column: Left Column
Display Order: 1
Active: Yes
Update All Pages: Yes
Template to Include: (adv_portal)clean_nav
Style: (Your style)

Template content is as follows:

<tr><td class="alt1"><table border="0" width="165" class="portalnav">
<tr><td bgcolor="#444444" width="100%" onclick="window.location='http://www.youdomain.tld/forum/link.php'" style="cursor:pointer; background-color:#444444" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#555555';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#444444';"><span class="portalnav">Link Description</span></td></tr>
</table></td></tr>

This is the WHOLE template. For each link you want to add, you will need to add the following line BEFORE the closing </table></td>, and edit it to the URL and description of the option that you are linking:

<tr><td bgcolor="#444444" width="100%" onclick="window.location='http://www.youdomain.tld/forum/link.php'" style="cursor:pointer; background-color:#444444" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#555555';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#444444';"><span class="portalnav">Link Description</span></td></tr>

Use Module Shell Template: Yes
Usergroups: All set to yes


Other template edits:

In my example, #444444 is my ON color, and "#555555" is my OFF color. Change these to whatever you like. I also have a fixed table width in the initial table call, here:

width="165"

Edit that accordingly to match your layout.

Step two: CSS Definitions

ACP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> (Your Style) -> Main CSS

Scroll down to Additional CSS Definitions

At the bottom, Add:

.portalnav
{
color:#FFCC00;
font: bold 10px verdana;
Text-Decoration: none;
}

.portalnav a, .portalnav a:link, .portalnav a:visited, .portalnav a:hover, .portalnav a:active {
 
text-decoration:none;
 
color: #FFCC00;
 
font: bold 10px verdana;
 }

This is for the same font and color in my demo. Change the #FFCC00 to your desired color, and edit your font CSS as desired.

Step 3: Disable your old navigation block.

ACP -> vBA CMPS -> Edit Modules -> Site Navigation

Set "Active" to No. Keep in mind that you'll have two modules named Site Navigation now, so make sure you disable the non-template driven, default module and not the one you just created.

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[EasyTarget]

nice, i'll be installing this.

Hack and second post updated, now 100% Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

[brvheart]

for some reasone I can not change the font color, could you give me a hand please?

EDIT: On the dark style is what I am referring to.

see it at www.matt21.net

If you're using multiple styles with it, you'll need to add the CSS definitions to each style, so that the 'portalnav' CSS matches the color you're looking to use for that particular style.

I'm looking at your source, and I don't see:

.portalnav
{
color:#FFCC00;
font: bold 10px verdana;
Text-Decoration: none;
}

In your CSS. Make sure you add that in All Style Options for each style, and change the font color there to what you want the font to be.

[brvheart]

Thank you, works now it was a child style and apparently did not get passed down from mama

[tpzone]

thanks.. installed and working on 3.6 with 2.2 cmps

[BeaufordRox]

Installed, and thanks!

The only thing my users may not like about it is that you can't use the middle mouse click to open the links in a new window with FireFox. Is there any way to change this?

[nestoras]

thanks a lot for this!its great!

[sam anders]

thanks for this

[eMike]

Excellent work
Many thanks!