I like to play in Apple’s iWeb. I especially like to play with pushing it past its limitations and creating dropdown menus in it. One menu which I created for a genealogy website,Family Tree, is similar to the concept of a php menu. An iWeb Menu iWeb creates a horizontal menu for you at the top of each page. It works fine if you don’t have too many links. Once you start getting complicated, you can end up with a web page, which is half eaten up with links. Hence the usefulness of a dropdown menu. A dropdown menu which you can drop in with an HTML Snippet. iWeb’s HTML Snippet widget is a useful little creature. Just about anything you can code can be pasted into a snippet and positioned on a web page—including dropdown menus. Just include the CSS, the JavaScript, and the HTML in one file. Then cut-and-paste it into the snippet you dragged onto your iWeb page. A Custom iWeb Menu Has Its Issues Most of the websites I create in iWeb need a custom menu. The negative side of this is that for every tiny change you make to the menu on one page, it […]