Imagemenu - Demo site

yes, was just about to ask for the same thing - wound up scouring these forums to see links to implementations but had trouble finding anything great...

would also love some admin interface screenshots if possible...

+1 please

http://www.essexairambulance.org.uk
http://www.hertsairambulance.org.uk

There are others, I forget... I don't see why I should provide a demo site? If you want to use the module, just install it? It's got an uninstall path, if it's not for you then just get rid of it - no harm done. It's not my responsibility to sell my modules to you, it's not like I get anything other than hassle from creating them in the first place. If there were money involved obviously it'd be a different story, but there's not... So... Ner...

Pobster

Incidentally, I'm not the maintainer of the 6.x branch so I don't know if the functionality differs from the other branches at all...?

Pobster

Um, settle.
It was just a simple request for an enhancement to the documentation. Not a demand or a criticism!

Image menus are notoriously tricky to set up, and/or output horrid unsemantic or inaccessable code. A quick peek at a working implementation would clear that issue up.
The docs didn't mention if there is any support for accessability, CSS styling,, preloading, dynamics, auto-image generation or what. There's dozens of approaches to 'image menus' that it may or may not have taken .. I was wondering whether it would be a compatible with our design style.

Thanks for the links anyway.
Looking at the demo I'm guessing it's not what I'd be looking for web-standards-wise, although maybe there's a chance if the theme hooks are good it could be extended nicely. I can't even see from that demo why it was used and not CSS. This is not a personal criticism, mmkay?
I'm guessing it does make the images itself by the looks of things, which is cool.

A demo shows a thousand words, and asking to see one shouldn't be to objectionable or unreasonable.
A screenshot would also be cool to demonstrate some capabilities ... but don't take this suggestion personally either...

Wow, I thought you New Zealanders were laid back! ;o) I didn't mean at all for it to sound like I was taking it as criticism and I certainly didn't wish for it to sound like I took your suggestion as any sort of personal attack?!?!! I'm English, not American, so curt sarcasm kind of rolls off my tongue without me even thinking about it. That's just how I speak I'm afraid... I didn't mean anything by it - please don't read anything I write as being argumentative, it's all written just as I think it. It's not like I worship Satan or anything, well... not on weekdays anyway ;o)

Anyways, back to the plot... I'm just not bothered about this release at all... I wouldn't lose any sleep if it was removed as I don't even use it myself! I was just paid to create *something* to give exactly this functionality for those sites I pasted above, I'm not bothered/ fussed about expanding the module any further than it is... It was a one-time 2-3 hours of paid work to provide what was asked for and I'm not a competent enough programmer (well, where css and js are concerned anyway) to make it any better than it is I'm afraid. All it does is spit out a menu system containing images... No fancy css - don't know any, no wonderful javascript, couldn't do it if I tried (and I have tried...) - I literally just did a search on google to find a way of providing mouseover effects, then stole parts of Drupals own code for menu systems and merged all the code together.

Someone has posted a patch as 'name' isn't valid xhtml, meh it wasn't my code to begin with, and anyways I don't even know what 'xhtml' is??? I'll apply it later, maybe it'll fix some of the errors some browsers seem to be having with displaying the menus?

Pobster

OK, so you've not got too much personal investment in this thing, I get the message now :-)
That's too bad, but potentially good news also.

Next time I feel like building an image menu, I may hack the shit out of this and force it into standards-compliance with accessible text fallbacks, and CSS-sliced sprite images to take care of mouseover preloading and stuff. I'm sick of re-creating the same rules & work-arounds in my theme every time.

It may even be soon. And I promise a demo if I ever do!

You know... I'm ultra-happy to add you as a developer for this module, then if/ when you do create something you could add it as a new branch? I'm only thinking that this module currently has quite a few users judging by the messages I get. It'd be a whole lot better for them to upgrade to something you write which would be standards compliant. What do you think?

Pobster

It's a possibility... Not right now, but when I get the need to try this again, and have a look at the code, I'll see if it's something to take on...

Pobster-

Are there any tutorials on the net on how to make that checkered flash image on the hertsairambulance.org.uk website? Is there a name for that process?

Sorry dude, I didn't make it - I'm just a simple programmer, my design skills are usually quite rubbish. The guys who did that site are called Inventicus, maybe pop them over an email?

Pobster

word up, thanks for the info man.

I'm offering (free) hosted demo sites for Drupal modules at http://[module_name].drupaldemos.org/.

If you are interested please contact me through my contact page: http://bit.ly/6YKbWq